Re: Long filenames on dropdown list

[Golda Velez <gvelez@tucson.com>]

At 02:09 AM 1/1/00 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>When the archived directory is deep in directory tree, the process of
>creating "wgall.html" leaves the cluttered and nearly unreadable long
>file names in the drop down list. (When archived by directory).  

Hmm..the quickest solution I could think of would be to run a quick search
& replace script on wgall.html, since you can change the visible links
without affecting the behaviour of the form.  Something like

perl -pi.bak -e 's/(OPTION[^>]+>)\/your\/archive\/path/$1/g' wgall.html

should do it.

>A related matter is controlling the number of directories that get
>on that list.  I realize wg.filters can do this, but it seems like lots
>of detailed work to do each time confarc is run.  Editing the
>resulting wgall.html is even less attractive.

Well - what logical way of limiting them would you suggest?  If you use
.wgfilter-index, at least you can use regular expressions to limit which
directories are included.  Using regexps, you can do things like not
include subdirectories more than x levels deep, if that is what you'd like.

Hope that helps...

--G


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