wishlist - alpha sort and logical grouping in configed

[Jeff Harrison]

--- "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- 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. :)
> 
[snip]

:)  Well, I would write it, but I suspect that yours
would be the only one that I sold :( 

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.




	
		
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