Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:21:57 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: xtset raison d'etre (was: Aggressive ports removal) Message-ID: <20200831002157.GB28873@eureka.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008310737370.825@aneurin.horsfall.org> References: <202008291154.07TBsr7L086597@repo.freebsd.org> <FC66C7DA-2A0D-43E7-B29C-E4C94C1973BA@freebsd.org> <f56625f8-1d63-515c-93af-909a4e47e65d@freebsd.org> <9a4583d9-097e-d0ba-4959-5c4d7b96b611@freebsd.org> <20200829232707.GC46173@eureka.lemis.com> <f9cd7c4d-9477-89ab-f054-75b9bf9ca077@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008310737370.825@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 8:03:32 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> [ I seem to have missed the post to which this refers ]
Sorry, I nearly missed this one because you didn't change the Subject:
line.
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>>> Exactly. Another case in point: x11/xtset. Maintenance stopped in
>>> 1993, 11 days after the FreeBSD project came into existence. It works
Well, no, he quoted:
On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 9:27:07 +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
> Exactly. Another case in point: x11/xtset. Maintenance stopped in
> ...
> What does "xtset" do that the following script does not? I picked it up
> from $JOB a couple of decades ago.
>
> /usr/local/bin/wintit:
> ...
It inserts text in the same control sequence, but formats them based
on format =E2=80=9Cmetavariables". From the man page (which I'll send you
separately):
xtset -t %u (%T) %h:%D
might set the title text to
root (ttyp0) myhost:usr/src
Clearly it's not rocket science, which is why it has worked well until
some wise person decided that predicates are no longer acceptable in C
(see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D249017). It
still works well.
Greg
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