Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote: |Abu Unaysah <[email protected]> wrote:
||There should be an option for the `write' command (w) to overwrite ||the destination file instead of appending. Either a `writeoverwrites' ||option or another command `Write' (W). Ah, i recall i have added a "|" modifier back in January, with v14.9 you will thus be able to say ? write . '| cat > FILE' and use the usual shell mechanisms as necessary. For parts this i think was already possible with Heirloom. Of course all of this is a bit of a CRUX... until at least it is possible to directly address individual parts but themselves. And i just realized ed(1) uses "!" for this very purpose.. So i guess that needs to be added for the above _and_ the part machinery first! |That indeed addresses a real shortcoming! |My idea would thus be: add a "!" command suffix, use it for |`write' immediately. If set, replace existing files instead of |appending to them. For attachments, ask in interactive mode |wether an existing file should be overwritten, default to "yes" if |the "!" suffix has been given, to "no" otherwise. In non- |interactive mode the defaults will be always chosen. I think this And this somehow interferes with that idea? On the other hand ? write! !cat>FILE is quite useless for one and then doesn't look soooo weird either. But thinking about it your *write-overwrite* looks appealing, too. I'm just wondering what to do with the MIME parts... --steffen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 __________________________________ [email protected]
