Re: Re: linesep char

Oh--oops.  I didn't mean to be a jerk or anything.  I'm just saying I've
got too much to do, this has been on the wishlist for a long time and I
haven't done it yet--it's the sort of thing that has fallen by the
wayside.

Mmm...  configuring the escape character as well gets a bit messy.  I've
had both camps yell at me for this.  One camp wants to be able to
configure things like whatever client they used before.  The other camp
wants Lyntin to be smaller and less bloated and they don't really care
about configuration.

I would say hold off on configuring the escape character--that's a big
project which involves more than just a patch.  I'd just fix the
SEMI_REGEXP so that it's configurable with the default being to use ; as
the command separator.

The command char is configurable--I would look at that and see if you
can't do something similar.

/will


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Paul Jimenez wrote:
>
> Okay, hint taken :)  Now, if one were to rewrite this, what would be the
> right way to rewrite it?  One way would be to allow configuring of just
> the linesep character(s).  Another would be to allow configuration of
> not the linesep character, but instead of the *escape* character, and hardcode
> the linesep character to '<escapechar>;', and a literal <escapechar> as
> <escapechar><escapechar>. \, %, and $ are all popular escape chars.
>
> So what opinions do people have?
>
>   --pj
>
> On Monday, Apr 19, 2004, will guaraldi writes:
> >
> >It's been on the wishlist for a year or more, but it's not really in my
> >priority list.  I think the only way it will get done is for someone to
> >send in a patch.
> >
> >So if someone is interested in working through this, then the chances of
> >this thing being made configurable are very high.  Possibly even for 4.1.
> >Otherwise, the chances are very low that it'll get fixed in the forseeable
> >future.
> >
> >/will


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