On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 05:35:39PM +, David Holland wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 09:09:06AM +0200, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> > [stuff about searching $PATH for more things]
>
> A different and much less invasive way to get the first 90% of this is
> to pick an otherwise unused metachar
On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 09:09:06AM +0200, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> [stuff about searching $PATH for more things]
A different and much less invasive way to get the first 90% of this is
to pick an otherwise unused metacharacter (e.g. @) and use it as a tag
meaning "search for the rest of this o
On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 06:58:25PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:13:19 +0200
> From:tlaro...@kergis.com
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> | No: just the shell. Putting this in a C source will not be portable,
> | since the shell used for system(3) would not
Date:Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:13:19 +0200
From:tlaro...@kergis.com
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| No: just the shell. Putting this in a C source will not be portable,
| since the shell used for system(3) would not mandatorily understand
| a "set -o xfilename" or whatever the name for
Thanks! I will come back to you when I have done the job (I think I
will have a slot on thursday).
Best,
T. Laronde
On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 06:07:21PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
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> | is set, the option can not be set; if posix is set after, the option
> | is reset to off) with a name of "xpa
On Sun, 22 Sep 2024, Robert Elz wrote:
ps: Of course, one can almost accomplish this with functions...
PATH_TO_BASIC_UTILITIES=/usr/bin/-
PATH_TO_ENHANCED_UTILITIES=/usr/bin/+
-() { ${PATH_TO_BASIC_UTILITIES}/"$@" ; }
+() { ${PATH_TO_ENHANCED_UTILITIES}/"$@" ; }
and then use them as
-
On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 05:03:26PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:09:06 +0200
> From:tlaro...@kergis.com
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> | (whether your test about the first two chars, or the more restricting
> | but simplest first an alphanumeric),
>
> On
| is set, the option can not be set; if posix is set after, the option
| is reset to off) with a name of "xpathsearch" or "xfilename", would
| seem acceptable? I will find some time next week to try to add it.
To do that you're going to want to apply the following patch to
mkoptions.sh fir
Date:Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:09:06 +0200
From:tlaro...@kergis.com
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| (whether your test about the first two chars, or the more restricting
| but simplest first an alphanumeric),
On that point, my reasoning is that I can imaging having 2 sets of
(some perha
On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 04:38:52AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:47:09 +0200
> From:tlaro...@kergis.com
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> | one can reach the answers interpolated searching for '^#TL':
>
> My mail reader colours quoted text (quoted the standar
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