[2646] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: RFC: popless-search
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Riggle)
Sat Sep 18 21:04:10 2010
Cc: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>, barnowl-dev <barnowl-dev@mit.edu>
From: Kevin Riggle <kevinr@free-dissociation.com>
To: David A Benjamin <davidben@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1009182022030.9932@superconducktor>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:04:05 -0400
Excerpts from David A Benjamin's message of Sat Sep 18 20:37:36 -0400 2010:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, David A Benjamin wrote:
>
> >> 25a69b5 Check contexts on all commands
> >>
> >> This makes me slightly nervous, but hopefully any bugs will come out in
> >> pre-release testing. And it's a change I agree we should make.
> >
> > Yeah. Actually, I bet many of commands marked interactive that setup initial
> > state in the recwin (such as view) would be problematic in peoples' startup
> > files. We probably want to go through and audit all the context flags more
> > thoroughly than I apparently did.
>
> Thinking about this some more, I wonder if this makes much sense in the
> first place. Why shouldn't people be allowed to call, say, help and then
> popless:quit in their startup file? Or maybe just help if you want to
> display that on startup for whatever reason.
I certainly rely on being able to call :view in my startup file, and I was
calling jabberlogin as well until that stopped working. (I keep meaning to
file a bug about that.)
- Kevin
