-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 13:18:41 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > >> There's plenty of time to discuss it, given that it definitely wouldn't >> be added for 4.1.0. If Lua support is mature by then, then the obvious >> solution would be to just use that, instead of inventing something new. > > That sounds reasonable. Optimistically I was hoping for a new > branch, or similar, which could try out some of these changes. > As things stand I guess I'm going to have to keep maintaining my > own set of changes which is not ideal, but something I can live > with.
No, I'll set something up for this soon. > You're definitely right that with lua support a lot of the things > I've been doing would be better implemented in it. But I'm assuming > that like any changes I've suggested any lua integration into > mainline Screen is going to be in the future. Right. Definitely not 4.1.0. Maybe 4.2.0, maybe later. >> Other than that, I'd say that in general it'd be good to emulate shell >> semantics, both for test-like comparisons and for subshells. Not >> necessarily full-featured support, but those features we choose to >> supply should probably mimic Bourne/POSIX syntax. > > I think that I've managed to do that now: > > if -x file/path .. > if -d file/path .. > if -e file/path .. > > if $FOO -eq "bar" .. In usual shell that would be =, not -eq (-eq is for numbers; the reverse of Perl). > if `hostname` -eq steve .. > if `"hostname --fqdn"` -ne "bar" .. > if "test one" -eq "test two" "echo 'cats and dogs living together'" It'd also be nifty to support $(...) as well. But that's not crucial. Also, I'm guessing we're not going to do string interpolation; that is, unlike shell, if $FOO = "foo bar" (note the space) might actually be sensible. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI/mcf7M8hyUobTrERAs7OAJ0RZCFRj/+yyvLJvfvxd1dL8sX4swCghm8T /R/SEiOmNdGgHNaznerrzl0= =uQjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
