Re: [RP] windowlist script and contrib/

[Doug Kearns]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:39:00AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Doug Kearns <address@hidden> types:
> > Once we can dump the values of the def* commands to stdout this should
> > become even simpler and the second call to rp will become unnecessary.
> 
> I know it violates the "make it look like screen" idead, but I'd vote
> for nuking all the defXXXX commands and replacing them with a single
> "set" command and a table of variables. Or maybe a "def" command, and
> a kludge to make "defXXXXX" equivalent to "def XXXXX". Hmmm....
 
What does that buy you?  Anything other than a _possible_ improvement in
architecture?

> > However, I've been using it for a month and it hasn't failed yet :-)
> 
> There's a bug in RP that is exercised by a tweaked version of that
> script. I haven't tried your original script yet. The crucial
> condition was that the screen is split vertically. If you haven't
> tried your script after a vsplit, you might want to.

I can't reproduce this using my current script or the one you provided
in the recent message ( Subject: Bug report ).

Incidentally, I assume that script is broken intentionally?

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Regards,
Doug