Re: how to "reload" a file for editing?

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Larry McVoy wrote:

> Have you read `bk bin`/bk.script?  There are a zillion little aliases
> in there and "bk reedit" is one of them.

ah, quite right, but that brings up a related issue, and that's why
some of those aliases are documented in "bk helptool" and some aren't.

"reedit" is obviously one of those aliases in bk.script that's not
in the list of commands in "bk helptool".  on the other hand,
something like "chmod" is, so it's not clear what the criteria is for
inclusion in "bk helptool".

taking this a bit further, it's clear that the _chmod() function is
actually implemented in terms of "bk admin -m", even though the
"admin" entry in "bk helptool" doesn't mention a "-m" option.
curious.

and while perusing bk.script, i glanced at the code for _repair(), and
noticed calls to "bk park" and "bk idcache", neither of which are
documented in "bk helptool" or defined as functions in bk.script.

so, sometimes, even reading the source doesn't quite answer all the
questions.  just an observation.

rday
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