On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:02:11PM +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to do a lot of "realtime" (i.e. M4 is not an option) arithmetics in
> .fvwm2rc. Currently I'm using expressions like
> PipeRead `let "x=$[FVWM_A]*$[FVWM_B]"; printf "SetEnv
> FVWM_C $$x"`
> This has two advantages:
> 1. It is not very readable
> 2. It depends on the shell I'm using
>
> Are there any better ways for doing arithmetics in FVWM? Will arithmetics
> ever be built in?
Just to put my oar in: I'd like to centralise parsing of
numberic arguments everywhere in fvwm in the future. This will
make it easy to add a <number>[{+-}<number>]... syntax without a
shell.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Tue Apr 22 2003 - 03:02:25 BST