- From: Dale J. Chatham <dale@chatham.org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:12:31 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Klaus Johannes Rusch <KlausRusch@atmedia.net>
- Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote: > Dale > > > On the UNIX side, I think you should consider default locations for > > configuration files. I would think that all of the following should be > > searched, with the first hit of a confirmed file specifying the file: > > > > `pwd`/tidyrc > > `pwd`/.tidyrc > > Environmnet variable > > ~/.tidyrc > > ~/etc/tidyrc > > /etc/tidyrc > > > > This conforms to UNIX conventions and would allow various levels of > > standards for the way HTML should look. > > this may be on the requested feature list already, otherwise may I suggest you > add this to under http://tidy.sf.net for tracking purposes and to avoid > duplication of your work -- certainly would make sense to support common paths > (for Windows and OS/2 probably %DPATH%\.tidyrc could be supported too) > > I would vote for a single filename though, not multiple filenames. The multiple filenames duplicates the rc files for bash, csh, sh. If you go for a single file, please go for ~/.tidyrc The multiple gives a lot of possibilities for localizing configuration, though. > > --
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