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Subject:  RE:  Re: Possible bug: d does not seem to read ~/.d.conf
Date:  Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:08:38 +0100
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* Phil Betts (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:04:11 +0100)
> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 2:21 PM::
> > * Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:09:11 -0500)
> >> Ronald Fischer wrote:
> >>> From
> >>> 
> >>>    info d
> >>> 
> >>> we can see that /usr/bin/d is supposed to honour a configuration
> >>> file ~/.d.conf and that in this file, the boolean variable
> >>> hidden-files-shown corresponds to the --hidden-files flag in the d
> >>> command line. 
> >> 
> >> Hmmm, that page of the info appears to be outdated.  See the Command
> >> Line Options section as well as /usr/share/doc/d-1.2.0/d.conf.example
> >> for current syntax.
> > 
> > These resources don't contradict the info file but state the same.
> > Fact is that d under Cygwin ignores ~/.d.conf while under Linux it
> > works as expected.
> > 
> > Thorsten
> 
> You're not reading carefully enough.
> 
> From the info page:
> 
> | `hidden-files-shown'
> |      Boolean option, the same as the command line option
> |      `--hidden-files-shown'.  *Note Command Line Options::.
> 
> From /usr/share/doc/d-1.2.0/d.conf.example:
> 
> | # 'hidden-files' - boolean option.  Controls whether files with a
> leading
> | # period in their name are shown in the output.  This defaults to
> 'false' in 'd'.
> | # Set to 'true' or 't' or '1' to turn on.
> | 
> | #hidden-files = False
> 
> 
> Spot the difference?
> 
> If you put "hidden-files = true" in ~/.d.conf it works as advertised.

Phil, please, you don't know what you're talking about and you don't 
know what I and Ronald were talking about.

Thorsten


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