Re: [Bug-apl] Notes on )LIB

[David Lamkins]

As much as I agree with the notion of cleaning up the )LIB display, I'm not a fan of using configuration options to change UI behavior. May I suggest an alternative?

1) Change the )LIB command to behave as-if GNU APL only deals with workspace files.

2) Add a new command - )LIBX, perhaps - to show all of the files that GNU APL may load.

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From: Blake McBride <address@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:37 -0500
Subject: [Bug-apl] Notes on )LIB

Greetings,

I split my large utilities ws into many package ws'.  Now my )LIB command is becoming unwieldy.  I noticed the language manual states that )LIB returns an alphabetized list.  That is the first issue.

I would really prefer not to see .bak files or really _any_ other file that can't be loaded by APL.  If I have 8 workspaces, I am seeing 16 files in random order.  I would love to have some configuration options to show what I see with )LIB as follows.

LIB_EXTENSIONS = set to a list of file extensions to show during )LIB.  If nothing is set, show all files.

SHOW_EXTENSION = if set to NO, do not show file extensions so that my workspace "Utils.xml" would just be displayed as "Utils".

(Yes, I know I could have Utils.apl and Utils.xml.  If I hide the extension - it is my problem.)

Thanks.

Blake

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