At 2010-12-29 04:25, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Dirk_St=F6cker?= wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote:
I am slightly unhappy about the fact that we have control characters
(more specifically, the "record separator" 0x1e ...
Yes. I used 0x1E (and yes, I know my standards), as semicolon had lots of
troubles, same with comma and everthing else. E.G. the commit comments use
all of these characters. Previously it has been ';' as well as ',' and
some forms of §.
I don't mind which character is used - it's just that it's inconsistent
within the file (all of the above are still in use), and undocumented for
the user. I've had to dig into source to find it.
The advanced preferences allow to enter fields as well. Generally directly
editing the josm config-file is not a recommendable thing anyway and if
the person doing so cannot cope with the 0x1E, then he should use the JOSM
GUI interface.
That doesn't solve it. Some values have no way to enter them other than the
"Advanced Preferences" editor. Could we have meta-data somewhere that
provides a popup when you mouse-over the field in that editor, to tell you
what the separator is, for the cases where there are either none or one
value there and it's not obvious?
--
Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net>
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