Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:22:30PM +0700, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > First, some time ago here was expressed a strong intent to split
> > fvwm2.1 into fvwm2.1 (giving a description of fvwm and its commandline
> > options) and fvwm2rc.1 (listing all config-file options). Is this still
> > going to be done?
>
> I have no opinion about that.
Me either.
> > Second, regarding modules' configurations... Fvwm maintains a
> > database of "*ModuleName..." lines (a-la X resource database) and gives
> > them to modules via GetConfigLine(), right? But several man pages in
> > modules/ still include statements like "On startup FvwmFoo reads the same
> > .fvwm2rc config file as fvwm", which are technically wrong. It seems
> > worth changing all such things into a unified reference to some part of
> > fvwm2rc(5) ("MODULE COMMANDS"?).
> >
> > Here is a list of such incorrect man pages (to the right are
> > patterns used for grepping):
> >
> > FvwmAnimate.1 reads the same
> > FvwmBacker.1 scan the same
> > FvwmDragWell.1 same file that fvwm used during initialization
> > FvwmEvent.1 reads the same
> > FvwmGtk.1 reads the same
> > FvwmIconBox.1 reads the same
> > FvwmIdent.1 reads the same
> > FvwmPager.1 same file that fvwm used during initialization
> > FvwmSave.1 same file that fvwm used during initialization
> > FvwmScript.1 ???
> > FvwmScroll.1 same file that fvwm used during initialization
> > FvwmWharf.1 configuration file will be the
> > FvwmWinList.1 the same configuration file
> >
> > I can do appropriate modifications, but I'm not so sure in my
> > english, so hope this list is of some help.
>
> You're sure welcome to do that. These statements were probably
> written a very very long time ago and nobody noticed the
> inconsistencies. If you are unsure about your English, just state
> which parts you touch and somebody will take a look.
I've noticed it and struggled many times with a way to reword it.
What actually goes on is pretty complicated.
Especially at the beginning of the man page, a complicated description
seems out of place.
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