Re: clearcase bug
>>>> Stephen J Turnbull writes:
>>>> "David" == David Masterson
<David.Masterson(a)synopsys.com> writes:
David> That should be a given. I
don't suppose that (X)Emacs can
David> get information out of the Windows registry... :-\
Why not? Surely regedit can be coerced into giving information
noninteractively, if necessary by force-feeding it in a process
buffer.
Do Windows-only programs behave that way? I don't see anything in the
regedit help for this.
There also must be Windows APIs for registry access, it shouldn't
be
hard for Andy or Ben to hack in a registry lookup function, if they
aren't already there.
There probably is a Windows API for this, but would using it in a
GPLed program violate some copyright? ;-)
Also, using it might "tie" the compilation of XEmacs to some Windows
library that may not always be available. There's probably a Cygwin
equivalent, but this too may not always be there.
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David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA