On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 23:47, Tony Balinski <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Bert Wesarg <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> I think I have found at least one bug and one oddity: >> >> The -do command is only reset to "" in the !VMS case. Which would >> result that the -do macro is executed for all following files. Because >> VMS does wildcard expension by itself, I would also propose to add a >> warning, if a -do macro would be executed for file arguments which >> expands to more than one file. >> >> The second is an oddity that the -line argument is not reset after a >> file argument, That is, all following files after a -line argument >> will be opened with this line. >> >> As a general question: should we add more options to this reset-list? >> To get a finer control to the effect of these options to file >> arguments. It is also possible to add new options, which disable >> previous one, like -noread, -nocreate, -nolm, -noiconic? >> >> Bert > > Well spotted. Certainly the -line should only apply to the following file. > -iconic already has -noiconic (not sure whether it behaves as you suggest). > Then there's -wrap, -nowrap (same comment). -group could perhaps have a > -nogroup too, to stop grouping on following files. Otherwise the other options > listed by nedit -h are probably fine as they are. Some seem to apply to all > (-display, -import), others to the following files (-rows, -geometry). I'd > have to experiment to work out each one's behaviour. I also think we should > try to avoid other -no... options unless they really make sense. > > That's my quick reply anyway... Thanks. The -line options handling in nedit(nedit.c) and nc(server.c) are effected. -do only in nc. I think this is worth to put into the BETA-5-6 branch. The reset should be evaluated in a second step. Objections?
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