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| 42 | <H3>Future Ideas</H3> |
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| 45 | <LI> Add encoding auto-conversion to exec commands |
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| 46 | <LI> keep history file, also keep history of sourced files |
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| 47 | <LI> <PRE>set mimetype(extension,au) "audio/u-law" |
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| 48 | set mimetype(extension,wav) "audio/wave" |
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| 49 | set mimetype(extension,mid) "audio/midi" |
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| 50 | /etc/magic |
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| 51 | proc run {file} { |
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| 52 | global mimetype |
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| 54 | if {[file executable $file]} { |
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| 55 | exec $file |
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| 56 | return |
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| 57 | } |
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| 59 | catch {set mimetype $mimetype(extension,[file extension $file])} |
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| 61 | if {![info exists mimetype]} { |
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| 62 | set mimetype $mimetype(magic,[exec /bin/file $file]) |
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| 63 | } |
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| 65 | exec $mimetype(application,$mimetype) $file |
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| 66 | }</PRE> |
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| 68 | <LI> Add socket level communication model |
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| 69 | <LI> Enhance the true debugging capabilities - I'm looking at |
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| 70 | tcl-debug and into what I can adopt from the tkInspect philosophy. |
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| 71 | <LI> I'm taking ideas... |
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| 74 | <H3>Known Bugs/Quirks</H3> |
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| 77 | <LI> Command highlighting isn't perfect because I try to make it too |
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| 78 | efficient. |
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| 79 | <LI> All interpreters have the same current working directory. This is |
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| 80 | a limitation of tcl. |
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| 81 | <LI> You can't 'attach' on machines where <CODE>send</CODE> does not exist. |
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| 82 | <A HREF="http://www.osf.org/~loverso/">John Loverso</A> has a comm.tcl |
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| 83 | replacement. |
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| 84 | In any case, you can still attach to internal interpreters and namespaces. |
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| 85 | <LI> Need to clean up checkpointed states when the associated interp dies. |
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| 86 | Works with slaves, but not foreign interps. |
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| 87 | <LI> Can't identify non-Tcl or pre-Tk4 interpreters automagically... |
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| 88 | <LI> You tell me... |
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| 96 | <A HREF="mailto:jeff.hobbs@acm.org">Jeffrey Hobbs</A></FONT></ADDRESS> |
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