Re: Some of Alpha's problems (electrics)

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

>>
(c) Somewhere during the init process, do something like

    hook::register mode::init elec::createElectricReturnPref *

    # This will create a mode pref for "electricReturn" if there was no
    # such preference created by loading the mode -- mode defined prefs
    # and previously set user prefs will always take precedence.
    proc elec::createElectricReturnPref {args} {
        newPref flag electricReturn 0 $::mode
    }
>>

The above is the only piece of Craig's proposal that I don't like.  The
only alternatives I can see are:

1) to add these prefs to each mode directly (in their .tcl files)
2) we can also just set a global 'electricReturn' variable to 1 (or 0)
(and fix it at that value), but NOT have it exposed to the user as a
preference.  That way Alpha has a global default which is simply
over-ridden by each mode which wishes to have a preference for it.

-- Vince

<http://www.santafe.edu/~vince>