hi.
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
the users-preferences should overwrite the system defaults. (but why ? it just makes more sense to me), but they should really be merged.
Can you be more clear on what you call overwrite (you probably mean override) and what's the difference with merged.
of course i meant override.
and thinking of it, i don't know many conflicting options. i was just proposing that the system file was read before the users preferences.
and being at this, we would like a command flag "-rcfile <file>" to solely use another rcfile.
That could be an interesting option, though I'm trying to keep in mind that there will be a pdrc editor dialog real soon now and what would be a good way for that dialog to handle -rcfile and defaults and fallbacks/merges/overrides/however-we-call-it, in a friendly manner...
well i guess we could just set up a policy like: if you start pd with the "-rcfile"-option, then this file would be the only one included (and no default file would be used) if a preferences-file holds the "-rcflag"-line, then this line would be included at the very place.
this would make the system-wide rcfile simple, as any user just would (have to) include the same file (at the beginning of his/her rcfile of wherever it would be desired)
mfg.as.dr IOhannes