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Re: Fwd: Default time for unmarked history lines
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Fwd: Default time for unmarked history lines |
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Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:21:45 -0500 |
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On 1/18/16 11:53 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> So, how about instead interpreting a missing/0 date as a NaD (Not A Date),
> rather as readline does anyway with time 0, and providing a slightly more
> meaningful message than the current "??". Then a) I would be able to remove
> all my bogus "1" timestamps, and b) both "0" and missing timestamps would
> give the user a clue that data was missing and/or zero?
I think that a more meaningful error string would be useful. We'll try
reporting on invalid dates if the timestamp string in the history entry is
non-empty.
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/