Re: [RP] Re: Completion

[Doug Kearns]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:47:30AM +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote:
> Gergely Nagy <address@hidden> writes:

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> I must say that this is a very strange notion of bloat.  Not uncommon,
> but still strange.  To do this outside of ratpoison one would have to
> duplicate hundreds of lines of code, including keeping track of what
> commands ratpoison has.

Hundreds? No. Plus you could strip a lot of that code out of the core.
Most of the input bar code is self-contained anyway.

> So, all this plus more memory usage, slower
> speed, harder to maintain and possibly less functionality just to save
> less that 500 lines of self-contained code in RP?

Probably correct.
 
> Personally, I feel that would be more bloated.  When considering such
> things I think you need to take the whole system in account and not just
> a single app.  

Probably correct again.
 
> > When done with input, this application would call ratpoison --command
> > "whatever". Like an X front-end for ratpoison --command.. This is the
> > kind of thing --command is for, isn't it?
> 
> Well, sort of.  But you can't find out what commands a particular
> version of ratpoison implements.  So you'd have to keep a separate
> version dependent list.

Oooh, not another config file. :-)
 
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Regards,
Doug [ who is being bloody facetious again ]