Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart fails silently on incorrect input

5 Jun 2006


      Aditya Mahajan wrote:
...
Hi,
when I try
texmfstart whatever
nothing happens. Shouldn't a warning or an error be given to say that 
texmfstart could not find 'whatever'. This will make it easier to 
detect typos while trying out commands by hand.
I do get such a message when using texmfstart --verbose whatever, but 
I think that such a behaviour should be default.
Hans, is it reasonable to define a method report_error(str) in
class KpseRemote
   def report_error(str)
     $stderr.puts(str)
   end
end
and modify line 2110 of texmfstart.rb to
def run(fullname)
     if ! fullname || fullname.empty? then
%%%        report("the file '#{$filename}' is not found")
     report_error("the file '#{$filename}' is not found")
.....
Maybe there are other places also where an error report will be 
useful.
there is the non-verbose checking

  def output(str)
      $stdout.puts(str)
  end

so we can use

   output("the file '#{$filename}' is not found")

(i dislike stderr -)

Hans

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