Dear David, I proposed something similar to your proposal before but it was nixed. My current proposal allows for differences of opinion as this issue is becoming increasingly problematic to me.
Not displaying the .xml or .apl is a new idea - one that is also important to me. Thanks. Blake On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:29 AM, David Lamkins <da...@lamkins.net> wrote: > As much as I agree with the notion of cleaning up the )LIB display, I'm > not a fan of using configuration options to change UI behavior. May I > suggest an alternative? > > 1) Change the )LIB command to behave as-if GNU APL only deals with > workspace files. > 2) Add a new command - )LIBX, perhaps - to show all of the files that GNU > APL may load. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >> From: Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> >> To: "bug-apl@gnu.org" <bug-apl@gnu.org> >> Cc: >> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:37 -0500 >> Subject: [Bug-apl] Notes on )LIB >> >> Greetings, >> >> I split my large utilities ws into many package ws'. Now my )LIB command >> is becoming unwieldy. I noticed the language manual states that )LIB >> returns an alphabetized list. That is the first issue. >> >> I would really prefer not to see .bak files or really _any_ other file >> that can't be loaded by APL. If I have 8 workspaces, I am seeing 16 files >> in random order. I would love to have some configuration options to show >> what I see with )LIB as follows. >> >> LIB_EXTENSIONS = set to a list of file extensions to show during )LIB. >> If nothing is set, show all files. >> >> SHOW_EXTENSION = if set to NO, do not show file extensions so that my >> workspace "Utils.xml" would just be displayed as "Utils". >> >> (Yes, I know I could have Utils.apl and Utils.xml. If I hide the >> extension - it is my problem.) >> >> Thanks. >> >> Blake >> >> >> > -- > "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." > Albert Einstein > > > http://soundcloud.com/davidlamkins > http://reverbnation.com/lamkins > http://reverbnation.com/lcw > http://lamkins-guitar.com/ > http://lamkins.net/ > http://successful-lisp.com/ >
