On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 19:05 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > While i am all for the *idea*, what happens if your X11 server breaks > down and you *have* to use VIM to "save" it? While i am not opposed to > creating an easily learned api for config-file configuration, i am > *strongly* opposed to not be able to hack into that xorg.conf file from > a crude command line (hell, i have vim'ed config files with /bin/bash as > my init process and a half borked kernel that would boot 1/5 times...). > > I don't want my config's to be put all in the hands of some program, to > *have* to use a config program (with all the odds and ends it migth > have...) in order to fix a broken config. Now imagine that program > needed another program, which needed a service wich needed ... the thing > you where just trying to fix. > You don't *have* to use a config program, the keys are all vim hackable. It might be a royal pain, however, to add a bunch of keys with an editor. Tweaks would be easy enough though. http://elektra.sourceforge.net/#rgfacts (third bullet, also seventh) -- Darrin
