[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Allow on-the-fly multi-line marquee

[Johann Ransay]

I've been using scripts for automatically controlling VLC through a pair of 
pipes for years AND I would find it usefull if I could insert newlines in the 
marquee without restarting VLC (as newlines can be inserted from the command 
line).
I (now) understand your point about changing the syntax (and Paul Corke made a 
good point with his example), but if the syntax is limited we should be 
welcome to improve upon it.
Having said that, I realize that the best way to do it might be to treat 
backslash as an escape character in ReadCommand (rc.c). To prevent breaking 
the compatibility with older scripts we could switch to this new behaviour 
only if a new command line parameter is set (like --rc-allow-escape) that 
would default to the previous behaviour. What do you say ? Would you welcome 
such a patch ? If yes, where do you prefer to have it implemented, in 
ReadCommand or like in my previous patch ?

Regards,
Johann

On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Old RC is typically used by other programs automatically controlling VLC
> through a pair of pipes. We should avoid changing the syntax. That's
> exactly what I said.


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