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:zz: User Prefs & Additions, incl. Choice of Editor
Hi folx--
WITH REFERENCE to user preferences and additions--
1) Andrew and I talked originally about leaving a hole
/ aperture / intake for user's code, so that user-developed
code would always be brought in by each new version.
In my perusals of Perl materials I ran into such a function,
but I didn't mark it.
SO anyhow the user could have various files
with certain names that meet the criteria and are
co-compiled whenever ZigZag runs.
2) Isn't there some simple test of what kind of machine
the program is running on?
IF SO, couldn't we say
If Unix, default => emacs
If PC, default => WordPad
If Macintosh, default => SimpleText
3) Then if the user has some other preference,
that can be expressed in external code which is
brought in at run time.
Or is this hopelessly naive?
Best, T
At 12:05 PM 11/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> >> Should we start to differentiate a bit between architectures with,
>> >> say, Unix.pm and Windows.pm modules?
>>
>> I would like to avoid that if at all possible.
>
>In this particular case, it may not be possible. The details of
>figuring out what the user's favorite editor is or what editors are
>available are necessarily going to vary from system to system.
>
>> Going to a Save format, for instance,
>> which is fully in text mode: one long scroll
>> for cell text contents, then a bunch of ASCII
>> representing the cells themselves and their pointers
>> to the text scroll.
>
>Certainly the save format should not depend on the platform.
>
>
>
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