From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 27 07:57:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA02850 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:57:00 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA02841 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:56:51 -0700 Received: (from jkh@localhost) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA14866 for ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:56:48 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:56:48 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Message-Id: <199509271456.HAA14866@time.cdrom.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Any interest in this? Now on second version Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Path: reason.cdrom.com!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.tele.fi!news.funet.fi!news.helsinki.fi!usenet From: blackie@imada.ou.dk (Jesper Pedersen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: configuration tool for Emacs, TCSH and FVWM Followup-To: comp.os.linux.setup Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 22:30:14 GMT Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark Lines: 116 Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: kruuna.helsinki.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Summary: second beta release of the Dotfile Generator Keywords: configuration tool, tcsh, emacs, fvwm, Dotfile Generator I'm pleased to announce the second beta release of the Dotfile Generator ver 1.1. If you don't know what the Dotfile Generator is then take a look at the WWW pages: http://www.imada.ou.dk/~blackie/dotfile/ You can download it from on of these sites: o ftp://ftp.imada.ou.dk/pub/dotfile (Europe) o ftp://ftp.eece.ksu.edu/pub/dotfile (USA) where it is located both as gziped and compressed: o dotfile.tar.gz o dotfile.tar.Z For those of you who know what the Dotfile Generator is, please continue with the Changes section. What is it: =========== The dotfile generator is two things: 1) It's a tool with which you can configure emacs, tcsh and fvwm (and soon bash, NCSA WWW server and procmail) The configuration is done with check buttons entries, list boxes, etc. All the way there's lots of help. 2) The Dotfile Generator is also a configuration tool where you can create a high level interface to your own programs. The Dotfile Generator uses tcl/tk so it is very flexible and powerful. Why should you use it? ====================== Well if you don't use either emacs, tcsh or fvwm, then there's no reason. If you know everything about the above programs, then there's no reason either, but before you decide that you know everything, please check these lists: o Emacs: - How do you tell emacs not to change group privileges of files you edit? - How do you persuade emacs not to insert lines at the end of a file when you press down arrow at the last line - How do you change the prefix command for outline mode - How do you change indentation in html-helper-mode - How do you tell emacs where the TclX help files are located etc. etc. o TCSH: - how do you insert the last exit code in your prompt? - how do you make tcsh add a slash or space on completion. - how do you make tcsh complete on directories only when you complete on the command "cd" ? or on process id's with kill? - how do you turn off the audio bell when completing? - how do you enable/disable automatic logout ? etc etc. o FVWM This module configures the FVWM window manager. It enables you to change all the options available and define your own functions and popup menus, for example: - The fonts used in menus, decorations and the internal pager - Which MWM options to enable - change the styles of different windows - change the appearance of your mouse cursor and much more. You might also want to make it easier for some users to configure a program you've written. If so, this is a perfect tool for that. Changes: ======== Dotfile Generator: * added support for "bytecompiling" * created the function which shall make it possible for the dotfile generator to read old save files. * Changed the save function, so it now is possible to add new element to a configuration page * added the possibility to read options on other configuration pages. * add state to the save file, so that state will be correct when the file is loaded. * added code to prevent that two configuration pages are loaded at once, which could happen if the user selected a new page before the last one had loaded. * changed the description box, so it now fill the whole page. * added copy,cut and paste for extended entries. * added support for system general save files. * changed the name of the executable files to dotfile * now all widget's are grey when they are disabled. TCSH module: * added page: additional variables * added 'PAGER' to misc page * pick the delimiter from a list in user defined completions, so that it was posible to have a slash in eg. the command to execute. * add the alias page * added umask to files page -- Send comp.os.linux.announce submissions to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software.