Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 06:55:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu>, bvsmith@lbl.gov, ports%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, gj%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, me%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, asami%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: xfig.3.1.4 extension to support vi -C signals linkage Message-ID: <15717.839858100@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:20:14 %2B0200." <199608121220.OAA23179@vector.jhs.no_domain>
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> In an ideal world ... True ... every package would come pre designed for ever y > last eventuality, & we wouldn't need to add anything ;-) I'm not asking for a holy grail, I'm simply saying that rather than modifying n ports in the same way, it would make far more sense to evolve a more generic communications mechanism that *other* editors could also use, and would have well-defined hooks for ports authors to register if they so wished (catching SIGUSR1 is not my definition of a "hook" :-). Jordan
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