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RE: Possible bug: d does not seem to read ~/.d.conf


On 10 August 2007 14:21, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> * Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:09:11 -0500)
>> Ronald Fischer wrote:
>>> From
>>> 
>>>    info d
>>> 
>>> we can see that /usr/bin/d is supposed to honour a configuration file
>>> ~/.d.conf and that in this file, the boolean variable hidden-files-shown
>>> corresponds to the --hidden-files flag in the d command line.
>> 
>> Hmmm, that page of the info appears to be outdated.  See the Command
>> Line Options section as well as /usr/share/doc/d-1.2.0/d.conf.example
>> for current syntax.
> 
> These resources don't contradict the info file but state the same.
> Fact is that d under Cygwin ignores ~/.d.conf while under Linux it
> works as expected.

  It doesn't ignore it: it works just fine, if you get the option right, and gives you a syntax error if not.  Observe:

~ $ d AutoBld/

/home/dk/AutoBld/:
rwxr-xr-x  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  .a/
rwxr-xr-x  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  .b/
rwxr-xr-x  dk:Domain Users  0  Sep 12  2006  BLDHIST/
rwxr-xr-x  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  c/
rwxr-xr-x  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  d/
rw-r--r--  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  .g
rw-r--r--  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  .h
rw-r--r--  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  e
rw-r--r--  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  f
4 regular files in directory, with a total size of 0.
~ $ cat .d.conf
hidden-files=true
~ $ rm .d.conf
~ $ d AutoBld/

/home/dk/AutoBld/:
rwxr-xr-x  dk:Domain Users  0  Sep 12  2006  BLDHIST/
rwxr-xr-x  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  c/
rwxr-xr-x  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  d/
rw-r--r--  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  e
rw-r--r--  dk:Domain Users  0  Aug 10 14:56  f
2 regular files in directory, with a total size of 0.
~ $ echo "arfle barfle gloop" > ~/.d.conf
~ $ d AutoBld/
d: runtime error in parse_opt_cfg():  Invalid syntax in ".d.conf" at line 1!  Unrecognized option!
~ $



  This could well be a case of YMMV.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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