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Posted Nov 30, 2004 22:07 UTC (Tue) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
In reply to: Re: It *is* human readable! by sdalley
Parent article: Elektrified X.org released

"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 ;-)


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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.

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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.

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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 the
read and write sides of the coin.

Duncan

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