Re: Handling of the .globalrc file

[Shigio Yamaguchi]

Hi again,
> > it appears gtags does not work because none of the defaults are set.
> > 
> > In openconf (libutil/open.c) perhaps if the logic was reworked to set all 
> > the defaults, then load the user/system rc file to overload the defaults, 
> > the user would not need a complete set of entries in their rc file.
> > 
> > Right now I delete my .globalrc file, run gtags & htags then move my files 
> > to their final destination.  Recreate the oneline .golbalrc file and run 
> > bless in the various subdirectores.
> 
> Config variable GTAGS, GRTAGS and GSYMS don't have default value, because
> GLOBAL doesn't know which parser are available.
> For example, we can use etags which is the tag command for Emacs
> as a parser of GLOBAL. But etags doesn't have neither -r nor -s option.
> So we cannot define GRTAGS and GSYMS variable in config file.

I'll resolve this problem by the following method:

[Current specification about treatment of variable GTAGS, GRTAGS and GSYMS]

        if (config file not exist)
                USE default value
        else
                does NOT USE default value


[New specification about treatment of variable GTAGS, GRTAGS and GSYMS]

        if (config file not exist)
                USE default value
        else if (no GTAGS, GRTAGS and GSYMS specifed)
                USE default value                               <= ADD
        else
                does NOT USE default value

Using new spec, you can execute gtags like:

        [$HOME/.globalrc]
        +---------------------
        |default:format=compact

        % gtags

Of course, 'suffixes', 'skip' and other essential variables are overloaded
with default values as it were.

What do you think?
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Shigio Yamaguchi - Tama Communications Corporation
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