Re: [Freeciv-Dev] patch to save/restore options and filters

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 Oct 1998, Massimo Campostrini wrote:
> "Andrew E. Schulman" <andrex@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Do we really need both "Message options" and "Message filter" under the
> > "Game" menu?  The former is a subset of the latter.
> 
> "Message options" must go.

Prehaps it should be integrated into the message filter dialog?  And then
renamed back to message options, because I like that name better.  

If you try the message options, you will see that they are very different from
the message filter.  They cause a special pop-up window for each individual
message of the specific type.  It actually took me a while before I realized
this, since I never bothered to turn them on.

> Here is my patch (against cvs-Oct-22) to implement save/restore of
> options and message filters.  You need to save explicitly (from the
> options or from the filters window); the file name will be
> $FREECIV_OPT if it's setenv'd, otherwise ~/.civclient.cfg.  The file
> will be loaded automatically at startup.

How about changing the name to .civrc or .civclientrc to be more consistant
with other configuration files?  I have 74 dot files in my home dir, and none
end in '.cfg'.  23 have rc names though.

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