On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Julien Danjou wrote: > At 1207972098 time_t, Don Armstrong wrote: > > It would be nice if the awesome rc configuration file parser would > > throw warnings when problems in the configuration file are encountered > > instead of throwing out the entire configuration file and using only > > the defaults. > > > > The current status quo means that every upgrade which changes the > > configuration file parsing requires you to edit the configuration file > > to fix the first error, restart awesome, edit to fix the next, etc. It > > also means that any customization is lost until you fix your > > .awesomerc, which is anoying when you have rather different > > keybindings. > > What about awesome --check?
That's fixes the problem with restarting awesome to find the problem, but it'd still be nice if the parser would just continue on past invalid options after throwing a warning (to the extent possible). Don Armstrong -- I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P -- Cory Doctorow http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
