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Subject: Re: CaSe-IndepeDent Menu SEARches?
From: Ben Franksen via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: EPICS Core Talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 19:08:20 +0100
Am 04.02.21 um 10:29 schrieb Ralph Lange via Core-talk:
> In the good old times,
> we used to have a static DB parser that was used to provide a "lint" tool
> for databases. (My mourning of the loss of that feature was largely
> ignored.)

But not unshared ;-)

> In such a tool, I would support and encourage all kinds of intelligent
> hints for improving databases, showing similar options for typos being the
> simplest example.
> (What about "Engineers that used the calcout record also often use the seq
> and compress records.")
> 
> "Fixing" bugs on the fly? Rather not.

I suggest we declare that menus and enums are case insensitive, period.

> Large blocks of explanations and
> suggestions on the IOC console? Rather not.

D'accord.

Cheers
Ben
-- 
I would rather have questions that cannot be answered, than answers that
cannot be questioned.  -- Richard Feynman


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CaSe-IndepeDent Menu SEARches? Johnson, Andrew N. via Core-talk
Re: CaSe-IndepeDent Menu SEARches? Torsten Bögershausen via Core-talk
Re: CaSe-IndepeDent Menu SEARches? Ralph Lange via Core-talk

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