phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) (11/14/89)
I find that there are certain defaults that change for me depending on where I
am, e.g. when I am at work I want the Print command on the main menu to print
on the system printer, when I am out of town, I have an alternative for
sending the stuff back to my PC. Wanting differing options on the PAGER is
another. Now of course I can go to the options window and change these, but I
tend to mess things up too much :-)
I thought about just adding some code to .login to copy the appropriate file
to .elm/elmrc, but then begin to think about what might happen if I had
multiple sessions going :-(
My next, great idea was to invent a syntax in elmrc which would allow a
conditional assignment, depending on the value of variables in the
environment. This later design seemed to answer all of the dreams that I
could conjure up since I could also do things on a temporary basis as part of
a script as well as vary things by where/when I was logged onto my system.
Has anyone else had strange dreams like this?
-phil
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Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110
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uunet!wucs1!wubios!phil - UUCP C90562JM@WUVMD - alternate bitnetfrankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Frank Bicknell) (11/14/89)
In article <967@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller) writes: > I find that there are certain defaults that change for me > depending on where I am, e.g. when I am at work I want the Print > command on the main menu to print on the system printer, when I > am out of town, I have an alternative for sending the stuff back > to my PC. ... > > I thought about just adding some code to .login to copy the > appropriate file to .elm/elmrc, but then begin to think about > what might happen if I had multiple sessions going :-( Well, I have used a variation on that very idea for some time with '.exrc' files for vi. I use links instead of copying, however, linking .exrc.ansi to .exrc in my home directory when I log in on an ansi terminal for example. The same sort of idea could be used for .elm/elmrc. I solve the problem of multiple sessions by checking to see if I'm already logged in; then not linking and printing a warning message in case I am. Since I can only be at one terminal at a time, it rarely presents a problem :) . -- Frank Bicknell UniSource; 1405 Main St, Ste 709; Sarasota, FL 34236 attctc!usource!frankb || frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US