wishlist - alpha sort and logical grouping in configed

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
To: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>; "filePro mailing list" 
<filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: wishlist - alpha sort and logical grouping in configed


> --- "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com> wrote:
>
>> configed: button to alphabetize the file (by
>> variable name) and group common
>> items that wouldn't group automatically by
>> alphabetizing.
>>
> [snip]
>
> As you mention, much of the sorting would be subject
> to personal preferences.  Perhaps it would be better
> to just write a filepro routine that simply re-writes
> the configed file based on some custom preferences
> that you could enter.  It doesn't sound too hard to
> do.

Not very.
And at this point it'd probably no more hassle to copy a new routine to an 
existing box than it would be to upgrade fp on it to get the new configed.
And a routine wouldn't depend on or have to wait for an fp upgrade either.

But it'd just be nicest if it were in configed, that way it'd automatically 
be there for all environments on a box, and the fp upgrades usually have to 
happen anyways, and in the long veiw, configed gets around to all boxes 
whereas my routine only goes where I put it, and besides, the most 
convenient way to use it would be to hit a button while in configed.

Then again, configed seems to be simple enough I could just replace it 
completely with editor of choice including some macro/plugin to get the sort 
button and another that lynx's the relevant section of the html help, or 
better yet, like you said, a filepro routine that also emulates pmaint 
without the 9 printer limit, jump to prt table editor into right table for 
the printer line being edited, interactive color picker with sample display 
showing what it will look like, interacive variable picker library (browse 
popup of a filepro file of fp variables? array that is generated at startup 
by scanning the .hlp file?) with help and syntax checking and duplicate line 
protection, on-screen popup or sidebar showing a syntax definition or the 
allowable values for the variable currently being entered...

Or I could just wishlist it all :)
Or if you wrote it I'd probably buy it even though I never got jh 
import/export. :)

I mostly just wish there was a sort & group button like I first said though, 
mostly to keep the printers collected together and to make it easier to spot 
duplicate lines and easier to spot if a given variable already exists or 
not. Most of my sites have a couple screens of variables and when they are 
all jumbled up like they are after several years of several shortsighted 
developers, it's now a (admittedly minor) pain to make simple changes 
sometimes.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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