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Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH
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David Combs |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:59:27 -0700 |
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:49:26PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote:
>
> > > Probably that character should be '*'? What lynx developers think about
> > > it
> > > (suggestions of characters are welcome)
> > >
> > > Another idea - seems that ':' is unusual character in unix filenames -
> > > so we
> >
> > not really - I use it (I do run into the problem of putting it in filenames
> > that I would try to inspect with lynx from the command-line ;-).
>
> Don't you use newlines in filenames? :) In this case the code in LYReadCFG.c
> will definitely fail...
>
> And I think you use '*' less frequently than ':' in filenames.
>
> IMO we can restrict outself from using such chars in filenames of lynx
> configuration files (at least).
>
> > > can support this feature on unix as it is (without changing extra logic
> > > like
> > > quoting, escaping, etc - just ifdef'ing), and disable it on DOS,VMS,
> > > MacOS - I
> > > don't think there are a lot of ISP that run these OSes.
> > > Or we can provide this feature on these OSes, but delimiter will be
> > > different
> > > from ':' for them - may be '*' on these OSes and still ':' on unix?
> > >
> > > So any opinions?
> > >
> >[...]
>
> Best regards,
> -Vlad
>
I myself save the emacs "*Buffer list*" as *buffer-list*-26apr99.
I wonder how many others do too?
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/04/27
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/28
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Doug Kaufman, 1999/04/28
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/28
Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, dickey, 1999/04/24
Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, dickey, 1999/04/24
Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, dickey, 1999/04/25
Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, dickey, 1999/04/26
Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, dickey, 1999/04/26
Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, dickey, 1999/04/26