On Sat, 15 May 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:19:22AM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> I'm asking for a plain-text export/import format for keybindings, >> not for Tuomo to write a GUI configuration tool. > > There should be no trouble reading Ion3 configuration files simply > by defining versions of a few Lua functions and reading the files as > long the user keeps to this small set of basic configuration > functions in the primary configuration and puts extensions in other > file that the configuration program can skip. It would even be > possible to have Ion disallow using anything else and defining new > symbols within some known files to ensure this. With Ion2 a > configuration program can't read the files because of the passing of > functions that it can't know what they do.
OK, though I think this is still too complicated because there should be a simple exchange format between Ion and other programs. XML or plain text, structured or line-based - doesn't matter, as long as Ion can read it in and print it out on demand. If you want to stick to a Lua-only environment, I won't argue. Ted
