OpenEuphoria

Re: New feature request: file extensions

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Apr 02, 2007
• 474 views

Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > Proposed order of precedence:
> > 
> > exw.exe:
> > 1) .exw
> > 2) .exu
> > 3) .ex
> <snip>
> Hmmm... OK, the exw/exu is valid for wxEuphoria, but ex?
> Only the most trivial programs work on both ex.exe and exw.exe.

Really?  I can think of 2 very non-trivial programs that ship with 
Euphoria:
  eu.ex
  ed.ex

 
> "Point 3" is therefore not getting my vote, maybe though:
> <pre>
> C:\> exw fred
>   Cannot open fred.exw.
>   However the file fred.ex exists, perhaps you meant ex fred?
> </pre>
> might help avoid some newbie confusion. Just the blunt message, I am not
> advocating
> that exw.exe offers to 'system("ex fred")', you understand.

I stand by my feature request. :)

Matt