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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:39:46 -0700 Peter Gordon |
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> <codergeek42@g.o> wrote: |
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> | If they were so "extremely important" then they would not be optional, |
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> | and hence not even be USE flags at all, no? Or am I missing something? |
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> You're missing something. Vim used to have an ncurses USE flag, that |
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> would switch it between using ncurses and termcap-compat. On some |
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> archs, only ncurses was available, so some way was needed to force |
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> the use flag. |
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That's a nice counterexample. Thanks for the explanation. :) |
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