Richmond Mathewson wrote:
On 27/04/2010 18:17, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Peter Alcibiades wrote:
So its worth doing, and Richmond done good to make a start.
I made a list last night and will post it later today. There are some
errors that the list can correct, but for the most part I think it is
accurate.
I've now double-checked some of the things I wasn't sure of, and I think
my list is pretty accurate now.
Can you tell me how you did it? I have a feeling the way I went about it
was
extremely and unnecessarily long-winded.
I extracted the dictionary entries by reading the custom properties from
the doc clumps (the dictionary builder that ships with the MC IDE does
this, so I just modified that script a bit.) Once I had a complete list
of all 1600+ entries, I used BBEdit and grep to remove or extract
various combinations of platform support.
I first removed from the list all entries that were available on all
platforms, leaving only those that had at least one platform missing. I
also removed entries where the dictionary is wrong (for example, all
inks are fully cross-platform now but the dictionary hasn't been
updated.) I also removed all synonyms (mostly the XBrowser references)
and all instances of "COM:" except for the first one.
What I found when I was done was that the only tokens that Linux does
not support fall into three basic categories: browser xcmd,
quicktime-related, and things the OS itself does not support. I also
found 32 Linux-only commands unique to that OS which no other platforms
support. There are Linux/OS X commands that Windows does not support.
There are 16 Windows-only tokens that don't apply to any other OS. And
so forth.
The results are here: <http://jacque.on-rev.com/codebits/tokens.txt>. It
looks to me like linux support is well-balanced, and that every OS has a
good number of platform-specific tokens that can't possibly be applied
elsewhere.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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