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

2007-08-10 Thread Ronald Fischer
$ d --version d v1.2.0 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. I have therefore put hidden-files-shown=true in

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

2007-08-10 Thread Steve Holden
Dave Korn wrote: On 10 August 2007 17:23, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Phil Betts (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:05:18 +0100) [...] As a matter of fact I stopped reading his article after the line where he says d does not read ~/.d.conf because this matched my own experience. Bad practice. Stopping read

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

2007-08-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dave Korn (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:37:23 +0100) > On 10 August 2007 16:22, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > > The problem (/my/ problem and maybe Ronald's) is that d reads the home > > directory from /etc/passwd and not from the environment variable > > $HOME. In my setup these differ. > > Is that ev

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

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 August 2007 16:22, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > The problem (/my/ problem and maybe Ronald's) is that d reads the home > directory from /etc/passwd and not from the environment variable > $HOME. In my setup these differ. Is that even valid? Hmmm. Posix does say: http://www.opengroup.org/on

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

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Korn
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 h

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

2007-08-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dave Korn (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:02:03 +0100) > 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 fil

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

2007-08-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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-

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

2007-08-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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 comma

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

2007-08-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dave Korn (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:49:31 +0100) > On 10 August 2007 16:44, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > Fact is that d under Cygwin ignores ~/.d.conf while under Linux it works > > as expected. > > >> Thorsten, he may or may not know what you're talking about, but your > >> statement > >> >

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

2007-08-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dave Korn (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:19:22 +0100) > On 10 August 2007 16:09, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Phil Betts (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:04:11 +0100) > >> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 2:21 PM:: > > >>> These resources don't contradict the info file but state the same. > >>> Fact is

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

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 August 2007 16:09, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Phil Betts (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:04:11 +0100) >> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 2:21 PM:: >>> These resources don't contradict the info file but state the same. >>> Fact is that d under Cygwin ignores ~/.d.conf while under Linux i

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

2007-08-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Phil Betts (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:04:11 +0100) > Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 2:21 PM:: > > * 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 confi

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

2007-08-10 Thread Phil Betts
Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 2:21 PM:: > * 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

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

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 August 2007 16:44, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Fact is that d under Cygwin ignores ~/.d.conf while under Linux it works > as expected. >> Thorsten, he may or may not know what you're talking about, but your >> statement >> >> "d under Cygwin ignores ~/.d.conf " >> >> is demonstra

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

2007-08-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Phil Betts (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:05:18 +0100) > Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 4:09 PM:: > > Phil, please, you don't know what you're talking about and you don't > > know what I and Ronald were talking about. > > If you re-read what was posted, you'll find I was totally correct >

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

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 August 2007 17:23, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Phil Betts (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:05:18 +0100) >> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 4:09 PM:: >>> Phil, please, you don't know what you're talking about and you don't >>> know what I and Ronald were talking about. >> >> If you re-read

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

2007-08-10 Thread Phil Betts
Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 4:09 PM:: > Phil, please, you don't know what you're talking about and you don't > know what I and Ronald were talking about. I'm so sorry, but my telepathy module has a malfunction. Until it's fixed, I can only respond to what is actually written

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

2007-08-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dave Korn (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:48:13 +0100) > On 10 August 2007 17:23, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Phil Betts (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:05:18 +0100) > >> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 4:09 PM:: > >>> Phil, please, you don't know what you're talking about and you don't > >>> know what