From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 16:04:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA24077 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:04:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA24072 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:04:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.6.12/Unknown) with ESMTP id RAA03699; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:06:40 -0700 Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA04545; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:03:59 -0700 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199602150003.RAA04545@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: kbdcontrol change To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:03:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: angio@aros.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602141007.UAA16829@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 14, 96 08:37:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lo and behold, Michael Smith once said: > Dave Andersen stands accused of saying: > > > > I got annoyed with kbdcontrol's inability to put returns or tabs in > > macros (makes it difficult to do multi-line commands. :), so I patched it > > to handle \ notation.. > > Not necessarily a bad thing... > > > kbdcontrol -f 1 "cd /\nls\ncd\n" > > But what's wrong with "cd /;nls;ncd" ?? It still won't handle the trailing return correctly, and it won't work if you want to make it do a sequence of characters in (say) a text editor that doesn't support other kinds of macroing. Admittedly, 16 characters is a really short macro, but you can always hit F1F2 to type your signature (which, actually, I have it set to do). I just feel that it's a change that lends some more functionality without causing any problems. And I think it'd be a welcome one based on the email I got from someone else. -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual/ "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."