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Re: It *is* human readable!Re: It *is* human readable!Posted Nov 30, 2004 20:40 UTC (Tue) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)In reply to: It *is* human readable! by alex Parent article: Elektrified X.org released
Full marks for a beautifully commented exim.conf ...
However, surely the same result could be obtained by putting .Comment file(s) judiciously in appropriate directories. A viewer tool would be capable of merging everything to do with exim (or any other program) back into a view that looks like a single file with comments. A sufficiently smart one could even edit that view and save the keys/values back in one hit.
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viewer tool Posted Nov 30, 2004 22:07 UTC (Tue) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] "A viewer tool" vi is my viewer tool. I'm probably sounding horribly snobbish about plain text files, but they require nothing more than an editor. If the tool isn't as easy to use as that then it will be all the harder to get acceptance. But thats just an engineering challange to be over come. Feel free, its all about solutions competing on merit ;-)
viewer tool Posted Nov 30, 2004 22:28 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] Look around http://namesys.com/v4/v4.html#etc_passwd for an example of making this vi-able.
In the mean time Elektra has a tool to edit a subtree as an XML file.
viewer tool Posted Nov 30, 2004 22:47 UTC (Tue) by JamesErik (subscriber, #17417) [Link] Part of the point is that this paradigm doesn't even *require* a viewer tool. One could do 90% of what one needed with just 'ls' and 'cat' plus have the added benefit of fine-grained fs-based security.
viewer tool Posted Dec 1, 2004 8:21 UTC (Wed) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] Well.. make that ls, cat, echo, and shell redirection, to cover both theread and write sides of the coin. Duncan
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