Re: "wmk -a" and auto-adjusted variables?

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 plonka@doit.wisc.edu wrote:

[...]
> As I said, personally, I liked the idea of adding a wmk switch that causes
> it to remain in the same directory in which it was invoked because that's
> the easiest way I can think of to get the "wmk -DNAME~PATH sub-dir" to work
> as desired.  However, since you don't care for that, perhaps the wmk
> man-page could read:
>
> CAVEAT
> 
>    Auto-adjusted variables specfied as "-DNAME~PATH" on the wmk command-
>    line will not necessarily have the same effect as a similar definition
>    in a "./.wmlrc" file.  This is because, when processing sub-directories,
>    wmk changes its working directory to each of those directories, which
>    can influence the interpolation of such auto-adjusted variables.
>    When specified on the command line, such variables are interpolated
>    with respect to wml's current working directory at the time of its
>    invocation.  So, if you wish such variables to be interpolated relative
>    to wmk's current working directory at the time of its invocation, one
>    can work-around this issue by specifying "-DNAME~PATH" in a ".wmlrc"
>    in that directory rather than specifying it on the wmk command-line.
> 
> Without such a warning, the only way I could find an explanation of the
> behavior I observed was to read the wmk source (and see the chdir(2) calls).

Ok, it's now in the documentation.
Thanx

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer


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