Minor scripting related wishes (a generic thread)

[bdeshi]

Can we get a <space> variable?

[admin]

Space? You mean " "?

[bdeshi]

yep.

[admin]

And what would be the advantage over " "?

[PeterH]

Maybe <space 27>

(Just an idea )

[admin]

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echo strrepeat(" ", 27);

[bdeshi]

same advantage that <tab> has over

"	"

and <tab 27> over strrepeat(

"	"

, 27);

[admin]

It's a bit harder to type a TAB than a " "...

[bdeshi]

I should've said straight up that there's really no compelling reason for a <space> variable, other than the fact that <tab> and <crlf> exist already.
I was spurred on by the fact that AHK also has a %A_Space% variable...

[PeterH]

<tab 27>

[admin]

I should've said straight up that there's really no compelling reason for a <space> variable, other than the fact that <tab> and <crlf> exist already.
I was spurred on by the fact that AHK also has a %A_Space% variable...

It makes me thinking. Apparently I give the impression I have nothing to do here, just sitting idly in front of my screen waiting for wishes to come in. Er, no, wrong.

[bdeshi]

No big deal.

[nerdweed]

Could you please give a little steroid to SC moveto and copyto - allow a way to supress the rich-copy dialog.

The dialog asks a question. You want me decide for you?

No, I would decide in a scripted way.

If we go in a branch view and are invoking a script, I would know what I am doing. I am always hitting a No in this case and could always use a predetermined No in such scenarios. There can be four completely independent possibilites here (3 options - yes, no, cancel or show the dialog).

On the same lines, copyto and move to can make use of the on_collision field which is available for backupto. I often goto help file to see the format and stop after seeing it is backupto only. Occasionaly, do think about (ab)using backupto + delete instead of moveto, but drop the idea as it would involve actual bit copies of large files.

P.S. - I never asked before for on_collision because of the subtle difference in parameters for these 3 ops (and wrote this out of flow today)

Why not simply use backupto()?

I already answered that

BackupTo is an alternative to CopyTo. Not a very good alternative for MoveTo for moves on the same partition.

OK, but that wish is more complex than it might seem. Maybe next year.

Don, do you have some time for this now.

[admin]

Nope, sorry. Too complex for now.

[bdeshi]

Hiiiy, it's me with another wish!
PHP7's new combined comparison operator <=> can be pretty nice!

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// operator <=>
  text compare(1, 2);
  text compare(4, 3);
  text compare(5, 5);

function compare($a, $b) {
  return ($a > $b) ? 1 : ( ($a < $b) ? -1 : 0 ) ;
}