At 09:45 2-1-2013 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:31:34 +0200 "h.g. muller" <[email protected]> wrote:> The manual in general does not list with every option whether it is > persistent or volatile. It says this: This section documents the command-line options to XBoard. You can set these options in two ways: by typing them on the shell command line you use to start XBoard, or by editing the settings file (usually ~/.xboardrc) to alter the value of the setting that was saved there. which is false for any option of the "volatile" kind (I didn't know they existed).
The manual was written at a time when XBoard did not have a settings file at all, and all options were volatile. The settings file was something that was ported from WinBoard. That makes the manual a bit obsolete in some places. I can't work on the code and the manual at the same time, and working on the code is already close to 1.5 full-time jobs. So the best strategy seemed to be to just give up on the manual. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
