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?

Bert
>
> Tony
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