Hello.
Abu Unaysah <[email protected]> wrote:
|Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote:
|Peace,
And peace upon you.
|> ..I looked at your website, and that made me realize again how
|> much i admire Arabic and Chinese/Japanese/ calligraphy! An act of
|
|Seems to be a case of mistaken identity. That's not my website.
|My humble beginning of a website is here:
|
| aupc.orgfree.com
Oh. It would be a pity if the river dies, so much beauty there
lies within.
|>|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).
|>
|> That indeed addresses a real shortcoming!
|> I'd go for `W' ^.^, but we already have `Save' and those three
|> (sSw) are in the standard...
|> Hmm. As a vim(1) user i'm used to ":w!" etc., what do you think
|> of a "!" command suffix, as in "w!" / "write!" / "save!" etc.,
|> which has the potential of being applicable to more commands as
|> time goes by, starting off with `write'?
|
|As a vi(1) user, that sounds good to me too!
Fine. I have to change that somewhat completely for v14.9, it
doesn't make any sense the way it is. My working thesis is
Change `write' semantics:
non-interactive:
- have a command-line output target
. Overwrite existing target if there is a "!" command
suffix, otherwise append.
. save all textual/mime-pipe output there, drop other
attachments
- output to /dev/null
. fast exit, fake success ("soft error" once we can have it)
interactive
- have target
. Overwrite existing target if there is a "!" command
suffix, otherwise append (maybe ask instead)?
. like non-interactive. Maybe add option to ask for
attachments even in this mode, then ask for "shall
overwrite" of all targets.
- /dev/null
. step each message, ask for anything including "shall
overwrite".
"shall overwrite" questions default to yes with "!" command suffix,
to no otherwise.
Thanks again!
And ciao!
--steffen
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