On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 05:19:26PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> What I mean is that reLyX is certainly not supposed to use the
> hardcoded $lyxdir. What I thought is that all data files would be
> searched either in the user files, or in the files indexed by
> maybe_dir (of course I am not interested in /usr/lib/perl). Could this
> be done easily? You would need some kind of search function used
> throughout the code.
Interesting idea. I suppose I could do this. Too bad my todo list has like
twenty messages and I haven't done anything in several months.
> By the way, is it possible to prevent perl from reading all the
> directories in the path to a file? I ask the question because my files
> are in the hierarchy /afs, which is a distributed filesystem, meaning
> that the subdirs of /afs are filesystems all around the world. So
> everytime I run reLyX it probes a bunch of systems, which takes a long
> time (read: minutes).
if you write
no lib qw(/afs/jmarc/foo /afs/fmarc/blah)
Then those directories won't be searched for perl stuff. But I don't think
that's what you're asking...
> PS: did you see the bug report about reLyX not supporting \i?
Sigh. Yes.
-Amir
