What is the "Dotfile Generator"

<h1>What is the "Dotfile Generator"</h1>
The dotfile generator provides a friendly user interface, for
configuring dotfile, e.g. <i>.emacs</i>, <i>.tcshrc</i> or <i>.fvwmrc</i>. See the about
item in the help menu for information on the current module.

<h1>Menus</h1>
The dotfile generator sorts its configuration options into menus.
These menus can have any depth, and can be traversed forwards by
clicking on the actual menu index, and backwards by clicking on the open folder

<h1>Generate</h1>
When you click on the generate button, information will either be printed in
a dialog box, saved to a file, or both. This is configured in the setup
menu. Save is bound to Ctrl-S.

<h1>Internal States</h1>
The dotfile generator can <i>not</i> read it's own output, but what it can do
is to write a configuration file, which it can reread to configure it
self. This way you can use the generator, and then <i>save</i> you data, and
carry on latter. Under the setup menu you can set the dotfile generator
up to export every time you <i>generate</i>.

<h1>Reset Page</h1>
With the ability of importing comes the posibility of reseting a single
menu page, which you do from the main menu

<h1>More help</h1>
Help is available for any of the configuration options, by clicking on the
right mouse button.<br>
Help is available for every widget, ie. for checkbuttons menus
etc. When a menu is nested, there is general help on the header, and
specific help on each basic option. General help are also found on
headers, when a menu is divided into subgroups.

<h1>Setup</h1>
In the setup menu, you can configure different things for the dotfile
generator<br>
<i>dotfile:</i> This is the file in which the dotfile generator will save its
generated output.<br>
<i>Comment character:</i> this is the comment character(s) for the output
language you are configuring for.<br>
<i>generate to file:</i> Here you can select whether the dotfile generator shall
save its generated output to a file or not.<br>
<i>print:</i> Here you can select whether the dotfile generator shall open an
output window and print its output there<br>
<i>Generate defaults too:</i> If this is selected, things which are default will
be generated anyway, otherwise the dotfile generator will only generate
things which are different from the default.<br>
<i>Just Generate one page at a time:</i> You have to different ways to generate
information from the dotfile generator. The first one is to select
everything you would like to configure, and the choose generate. The
other way is to configure one page at a time, and for every page
choose generate.<br>
<b>Note</b> If you choose the second method, the button at the bottom of each
configuration page will be inactive. Otherwise they can be toggled with
<b>Meta-s</b><br>
<i>save when generating</i> If you select this option, the dotfile will save
everytime you generate.<br>
<i>Place windows</i> If you select this option, windows will be place at the
top, side by side. Otherwise it is your window managers job to place the window.

<h1>How to make your own module</h1>
In the subdirectory of the source directory, there exists a document called
<i>dotdotfiles.ps</i> this describe the syntax of the dotdotfiles. This
document is also available via html in http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~blackie/dotfile/dotdotfiles.ps

<h1>more information</h1>
For more information see http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~blackie/dotfile/

<h1>BUGS</h1>
please report bug through the WWW page:
http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~blackie/dotfile/bugs.html Don't be shy,
after all, I'm not able to correct bugs I don't know exist.
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<h1>What is the "Dotfile Generator"</h1>
The dotfile generator provides a friendly user interface, for
configuring dotfile, e.g. <i>.emacs</i>, <i>.tcshrc</i> or <i>.fvwmrc</i>. See the about
item in the help menu for information on the current module.

<h1>Menus</h1>
The dotfile generator sorts its configuration options into menus.
These menus can have any depth, and can be traversed forwards by
clicking on the actual menu index, and backwards by clicking on the open folder

<h1>Generate</h1>
When you click on the generate button, information will either be printed in
a dialog box, saved to a file, or both. This is configured in the setup
menu. Save is bound to Ctrl-S.

<h1>Internal States</h1>
The dotfile generator can <i>not</i> read it's own output, but what it can do
is to write a configuration file, which it can reread to configure it
self. This way you can use the generator, and then <i>save</i> you data, and
carry on latter. Under the setup menu you can set the dotfile generator
up to export every time you <i>generate</i>.

<h1>Reset Page</h1>
With the ability of importing comes the posibility of reseting a single
menu page, which you do from the main menu

<h1>More help</h1>
Help is available for any of the configuration options, by clicking on the
right mouse button.<br>
Help is available for every widget, ie. for checkbuttons menus
etc. When a menu is nested, there is general help on the header, and
specific help on each basic option. General help are also found on
headers, when a menu is divided into subgroups.

<h1>Setup</h1>
In the setup menu, you can configure different things for the dotfile
generator<br>
<i>dotfile:</i> This is the file in which the dotfile generator will save its
generated output.<br>
<i>Comment character:</i> this is the comment character(s) for the output
language you are configuring for.<br>
<i>generate to file:</i> Here you can select whether the dotfile generator shall
save its generated output to a file or not.<br>
<i>print:</i> Here you can select whether the dotfile generator shall open an
output window and print its output there<br>
<i>Generate defaults too:</i> If this is selected, things which are default will
be generated anyway, otherwise the dotfile generator will only generate
things which are different from the default.<br>
<i>Just Generate one page at a time:</i> You have to different ways to generate
information from the dotfile generator. The first one is to select
everything you would like to configure, and the choose generate. The
other way is to configure one page at a time, and for every page
choose generate.<br>
<b>Note</b> If you choose the second method, the button at the bottom of each
configuration page will be inactive. Otherwise they can be toggled with
<b>Meta-s</b><br>
<i>save when generating</i> If you select this option, the dotfile will save
everytime you generate.<br>
<i>Place windows</i> If you select this option, windows will be place at the
top, side by side. Otherwise it is your window managers job to place the window.

<h1>How to make your own module</h1>
In the subdirectory of the source directory, there exists a document called
<i>dotdotfiles.ps</i> this describe the syntax of the dotdotfiles. This
document is also available via html in http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~blackie/dotfile/dotdotfiles.ps

<h1>more information</h1>
For more information see http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~blackie/dotfile/

<h1>BUGS</h1>
please report bug through the WWW page:
http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~blackie/dotfile/bugs.html Don't be shy,
after all, I'm not able to correct bugs I don't know exist.