Re: FVWM: Re: FvwmEvent 1.0 (FvwmAudio++) Alpha release

From: <tma_at_nettest.dk>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:21:15 +0100

Bruce Stephens <b.stephens_at_isode.com> writes:

> tma_at_nettest.dk writes:
>
> > I want to use TCL as the configuration language of fvwm instead of
> > the current command set. The reason for using TCL and not perl,
> > slang or any other configuration language, was to make the new
> > TCL-based configuration files completely backward compatible with
> > the current configuration files.
>
> Ah. Clever. Just looking at my .fvwm2rc suggests it's not entirely
> Tcl-friendly, but it's very close. Specifically, the function
> definitions have + as the first word, so you'd need to keep track of
> what the last definition was or something. And the module definition
> lines are weird: you'd presumably have to use something nasty like
> redefining unknown.

True!

Of cause, we would want to add a new more TCL friendly module
definition, which shouldn't be too hard... When everybody has
converted to the new configuration language (2-3 years), the
compability stuff can be removed...

/tonny

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Received on Thu Apr 30 1998 - 07:48:58 BST

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