felix@ai.sri.com (Francois Felix INGRAND) (08/04/90)
Could it be possible to modify the next release of twm such that the twmrc file is parsed through m4 or cpp (as xrdb does). Thanks in advance, -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Francois Felix INGRAND SRI International, AIC felix@AI.SRI.COM 333, Ravenswood Avenue felix%AI.SRI.COM@UUNET.UU.NET MENLO PARK, CA 94025, USA "Pourquoi tant de haine..." (Edika) "Read my Lisp... No new syntax" (nil)
grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (08/04/90)
>> >> >> Could it be possible to modify the next release of twm such that the twmrc file >> is parsed through m4 or cpp (as xrdb does). >> >> Thanks in advance, >> -- -- This would be very nice - I'd like to be able to #ifdef things for different servers (sun, DEC, IBM, etc). I had hacked twm to specify an alternative .twmrc for each host, but would prefer something a little more standard.
stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) (08/06/90)
In article <FELIX.90Aug3142321@cayucos.ai.sri.com> felix@ai.sri.com (Francois Felix INGRAND) writes: > >Could it be possible to modify the next release of twm such that the twmrc file >is parsed through m4 or cpp (as xrdb does). TWM can not send it's input files thru cpp, because cpp's use of "#" conflicts with twm's use of "#" as the comment symbol. I have hacked twm to use m4 to pre-parse the .twmrc files. I also took a look at the info xrdb gives cpp and make that available to m4. Almost all of the changes are in parse.c (about 3 lines needed to be added to twm.c, or whatever .c has main() in it). If the X Consortium would like these changes I will attempt to extract them from my twm (I have applyed some other non-standard patches to twm give to me by others so I can't just diff it). If not I will try to put the whole thing up for ftp somewhere. I don't want to spend the rest of my life mailing out source 'tho... -- stripes@eng.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Mutitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood "Don't try to change C into some nice, safe, portable programming language with all sharp edges removed, pick another language." - John Limpert
toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) (08/06/90)
> >Could it be possible to modify the next release of twm such that the twmrc file >is parsed through m4 or cpp (as xrdb does). The real thing that should be done IMHO is to convert twm to use the resource manager to get its defaults rather than using a seperate initialization file. -- Tom LaStrange Solbourne Computer Inc. ARPA: toml@Solbourne.COM 1900 Pike Rd. UUCP: ...!{boulder,sun}!stan!toml Longmont, CO 80501
jim@ncd.COM (Jim Fulton) (08/06/90)
If you don't have time to hack twm code, you might be able to use the following (fairly gross) shell script: #!/bin/sh tmp=/tmp/twm.$$ (echo cpp ; xrdb -s; echo "<$HOME/.twmrc.master >$tmp") | tr '\012' ' ' | sh twm -f $tmp $* rm $tmp