> I'll give you an insight into how I use aliases...

That's a fantastic list Ravi! I don't think I've been abusing ARB as
much as I should have been. I'm gonna snatch some of those!

>> If I were to continue parsing aliases from a single file then no 
>> difference would be made to the caching mechanism that's currently 
>> in place. On the other hand, if I were to read a directory for a 
>> list of alias scripts then I most likely wouldn't need to cache 
>> them if things move quickly enough.
> 
> I guess a test is the only way to know for sure. I'm assuming the 
> file listing would be held in some sort of disk cache and a disk 
> access wouldn't be necessary every time.

If you mean that the OS would take care of this then it would be likely.
I couldn't program this in the script as it would stop ARB from knowing
when an external alias has been created/removed.

> As an aside, I'll probably not upgrade if individual files are used 
> for aliases, but don't let that hinder you from going along that 
> route - there are clear advantages for users with only a moderate 
> number of scripts.

At the moment it's a bit unclear as to what will happen because everyone 
likes the poll choices almost equally! :-P

Thanks for your feedback!

-- 

Regards,
Alex Peters



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