Bean wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Bean wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Update: >>> >>> Add timeout, progressbar and savedefault. >>> >>> savedefault: >>> >>> Variable savedefault set the system default value. If savedefault=1, >>> save the current boot item. >>> >>> You can also overwrite the default value for individual items, in >>> menuentry statement --save option always save this item, and --nosave >>> never save the item. If neither --save nor --nosave is specified, the >>> system default in savedefault variable is checked. >>> >>> >>> >> Why do you need this over having a normal save_env? I don't see any >> reason to prefer an ad-hoc here over general solution >> > > Hi, > > This is more convenient than adding a save_env command to every entry. > Users can just set savedefault=1 and all items are saved by default, > remove it and it's not saved anymore. They can also config each item > individually with --save and --nosave option, which is similar to > adding a save_env command at the beginning, but easier to edit. > > It may be more convinient in this case but when you start adding ad-hoc structures to any programming languages you end up only clobbering it. This is why a simple language C became more widespread than clobbered Ada. If you want to execute code on running entries you will need signals
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