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Bug#247766: marked as done (multiple specifications for the same resource name not possible)

Your message dated Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:06:25 +0100
with message-id <20101130090625.GA3928@PC17>
and subject line Re: Bug#247766: tetex-bin: only the last -xrm on the command line is effective
has caused the Debian Bug report #247766,
regarding multiple specifications for the same resource name not possible
to be marked as done.

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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-10
Severity: normal

According to the manual page for X(1), you are supposed to be able to
put multiple "-xrm resourcestring" argument on the command line.  When
you do this with xdvi, all but the last one specified are entirely
ignored.

I invoke the actual binary, just in case the wrapper is screwing up
the arguments:

    /usr/bin/xdvi.real -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "x":quit()' -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "]":quit()' -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "m":quit()' test.dvi

That should make the 'x' and ']' and 'm' keys quit.  In fact, only the
'm' key and the default 'q' key quit.  If you switch them around, it
is always the last one specified that works.  I say they are entirely
ignored because the normal binding of the 'x' key is what the 'x' key
does, if it is in any position other than the last.

I have no idea whether this is a problem with xdvi, with X, or with X
documentation.  The documented behavior is the desired one; you
(supposedly) can only specify one resource at a time with -xrm, so to
be limited to one is inconvenient.  More importantly, if there were a
limitation of one such argument, then the extra ones should raise an
error instead of be silently ignored.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-beth.4
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.22       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.8.1        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                        1.10.20      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                          0.2-20       The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.3-6    GCC support library
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkpathsea3                2.0.2-10     path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1                   1.1.14       Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.5.0-6    PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5                     5.0.2-0pre1  Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libwww0                     5.4.0-9      The W3C WWW library
ii  libx11-6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw7                     4.3.0-7      X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu6                     4.3.0-7      X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxt6                      4.3.0-7      X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  mime-support                3.26-1       MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                        5.8.3-3      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                         4.0.9-2      The GNU sed stream editor
ii  tetex-base                  2.0.2-6      Basic library files of teTeX
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/hyphen: 
  tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/upd_map: true
  tetex-bin/cnf_name: 
* tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
* tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
* tetex-bin/texmf: true

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On 06.05.04 Matt Swift (swift@alum.mit.edu) wrote:

Hi,

> According to the manual page for X(1), you are supposed to be able to
> put multiple "-xrm resourcestring" argument on the command line.  When
> you do this with xdvi, all but the last one specified are entirely
> ignored.
> 
> I invoke the actual binary, just in case the wrapper is screwing up
> the arguments:
> 
>     /usr/bin/xdvi.real -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "x":quit()' -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "]":quit()' -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "m":quit()' test.dvi
> 
> That should make the 'x' and ']' and 'm' keys quit.  In fact, only
> the 'm' key and the default 'q' key quit.  If you switch them
> around, it is always the last one specified that works.  I say they
> are entirely ignored because the normal binding of the 'x' key is
> what the 'x' key does, if it is in any position other than the
> last.
> 
Finally I asked the x-strike force to clarify if this is intended.
They quoted from X(7):

       A  resource  database  never  contains  more than one entry for a given
       ResourceName.  If a resource file contains multiple lines with the same
       ResourceName, the last line in the file is used.

This is the behaviour you see here, you just specified the resources
at the command line.

Please note that the following command line suggested by Stefan does
the trick.

xdvi -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "x":quit()\n"]":quit()\n"m":quit()'

-> FAD, Closing.

H.
-- 
sigmentation fault

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