Re: Great SWT Program

In article <71992f21-11cb-45b6-912d-b33eaf60a899@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bbound@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 1, 1:25 pm, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And it's broken in not one but *two* macro processors on the current
system

A disturbing trend.

[implied insult deleted]

You *really* need to check the calibration of whatever instrument
you use to detect insults. Thinking that your claimed infallibility
extends to speculations about tools you aren't familiar with --
Wow. Just wow.

[ snip ]

You do understand that environment variables defined in the way
I just described disappear when you exit the shell in which you
defined them, right?

Hrm. So much for the clutter then. So much for using them as any kind
of long term store, too.

Quite. They aren't meant to be long-term storage -- they're
meant to be something along the same lines as a clipboard.

Not to mention that since
this is a temporary thing I usually use one of a few favorite
names.

So they'd keep overwriting one another, taking long-term-bounded
space.

I don't know what you mean by "long-term-bounded space" here, but
the fact that they overwrite each other -- quite, that's kind of
the point.

This introduces yet a new problem of course: if you forgot to
assign one and then use it, instead of an alert that it's undefined or
empty or whatever, it will silently use the wrong path name in all
likelihood, with potentially drastic consequences. (Picture an
overwrite or a delete hitting the wrong file, but one you'd been
working with recently, so likely important.)

I suppose that could be a problem, but since more and more I use
my shell's autocomplete feature for pathnames, which expands any
environment variables as it goes, I usually *do* know if I've
defined them in some way other than what I meant (including not
at all).

And I'd almost say that this *IS* clipboard support, in a way,
with the environment variable(s) playing the role of clipboard.

Nah. Real clipboard support [ snip ]

"In a way". "Almost". So I'm not claiming "real clipboard support"
here.

[ snip ]

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
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