On Sat, 15 May 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:19:22AM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> I'm asking for a plain-text export/import format for keybindings,
>> not for Tuomo to write a GUI configuration tool.
> 
> There should be no trouble reading Ion3 configuration files simply
> by defining versions of a few Lua functions and reading the files as
> long the user keeps to this small set of basic configuration
> functions in the primary configuration and puts extensions in other
> file that the configuration program can skip. It would even be
> possible to have Ion disallow using anything else and defining new
> symbols within some known files to ensure this. With Ion2 a
> configuration program can't read the files because of the passing of
> functions that it can't know what they do.

OK, though I think this is still too complicated because there should
be a simple exchange format between Ion and other programs.  XML or
plain text, structured or line-based - doesn't matter, as long as Ion
can read it in and print it out on demand.  If you want to stick to a
Lua-only environment, I won't argue.

Ted

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