Re: Further to the perl/vileget/vileserv saga

2021-02-09 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:09:00AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 01:29:13PM +, Chris Green wrote: > >I *think* I'm beginning to understand all this, I suspect there's some > >bits of very old history of mine (and of vile) in all this. > > > >Firstly I don't quite know

Re: Further to the perl/vileget/vileserv saga

2021-02-09 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:15:21AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 01:46:11PM -0600, J. Chris Coppick wrote: > >Do not think the "use Vileserv" replaces those other lines. It does ring a > >bell. I'd have to dig up the docs and code to check what was required for > >what. >

Re: Further to the perl/vileget/vileserv saga

2021-02-09 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 01:46:11PM -0600, J. Chris Coppick wrote: >On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 1:25 PM Chris Green <[1]c...@isbd.net> wrote: [snip my ramble] > >All I can tell you for sure at this point is that my memory is no doubt >worse than yours. :) >Do not think the "use

Re: Further to the perl/vileget/vileserv saga

2021-02-08 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 10:09, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > The difference in `.pl' vs `.pm' is that Perl will use the latter as a default > when `require' is given a bare work (as opposed to a quoted string). [...] That would be "bare *word*", damnit. --bod

Re: Further to the perl/vileget/vileserv saga

2021-02-08 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 01:29:13PM +, Chris Green wrote: >I *think* I'm beginning to understand all this, I suspect there's some >bits of very old history of mine (and of vile) in all this. > >Firstly I don't quite know from where I got the following code (which is in >my .vilerc):- > >

Re: Further to the perl/vileget/vileserv saga

2021-02-08 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 01:46:11PM -0600, J. Chris Coppick wrote: >Do not think the "use Vileserv" replaces those other lines. It does ring a >bell. I'd have to dig up the docs and code to check what was required for >what. It does, you can pretty easily test it: $ echo 'perl "use Vileserv"'

Re: Further to the perl/vileget/vileserv saga

2021-02-08 Thread J. Chris Coppick
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 1:25 PM Chris Green wrote: > I *think* I'm beginning to understand all this, I suspect there's some > bits of very old history of mine (and of vile) in all this. > > Firstly I don't quite know from where I got the following code (which is in > my .vilerc):- > > perl