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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KConfig problem
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-03-21 19:28:11
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On Wednesday 21 March 2001 09:14, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > At least it did not strip white space between keyword and the equal sign.
> > I added stripping of whitespace at the front and between keyword and
> > equal sign after 2.1 was released to parseSingleConfigFile(), this makes
> > it better usable with hand written config files.
> > So the patch doesn't help, and I really think it's a feature and the
> > space should be stripped.
>
> Great, just don't change the value the user entered. The GUI should place
> quotes around the value if you really think stripping is needed.
>
> There is one rule that goes beyond your resoning: "the user is always
> right" So; never correct the input of a user. (notable exception is when
> the input is _used_ by a program)

Whitespace is still stripped but the first/last space is now escaped with 
'\s' when we write an entry. Quoting wouldn't be backwards compatible.

Cheers,
Waldo
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