From: Hans Ronne <hronne@comhem.se>
To: Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: The selective fire-at command
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l03130301bd4838464fdb@[212.181.162.155]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408171807480.32437-100000@leon.phy.cmich.edu>
>I think that when I was working on the Dec 29 fix, I wanted to fix
>this as well, but wasn't sure how to go about it because I didn't
>know the Tcl/Tk interface code all that well. In retrospect, I
>should have looked at the attack code for guidance.
It's not your fault that the command doesn't work. As I said, the previous
version didn't work either, as far as I can tell from the CVS sources, and
your December hack was certainly a major improvement with respect to other
problems. The fact that nobody discovered that the command doesn't work for
many years shows that it's a very subtle bug (or a seldomly used command).
I found it paradoxical, though, that those who argued that this is a very
useful command which should be kept at all costs have never been able to
use it, while I, who do have a selective fire-at command on my Mac don't
find it particularly useful :-).
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-17 22:15 Hans Ronne
2004-08-17 22:59 ` Eric McDonald
2004-08-17 23:25 ` Hans Ronne [this message]
2004-08-17 23:36 ` Eric McDonald
2004-08-18 0:48 ` Hans Ronne
2004-08-18 3:00 ` Eric McDonald
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