Registries was (Re: [ILUG] Some more Questions : )

[John Allen]

"John P. Looney" wrote:

>
>  If it was a common requirement, in an ideal world, applications would
> have a "purge registry entries" menu thing, and a "export registry
> settings" menu thing. They don't. With GNOME's registry, you can do "cp
> -rd ~/.gnome/appname ~otheraccount/.gnome/appname - something I'd to do
> yesterday, when copying settings from my home account to this one.
>
>  If anyone is doing anything, and thinks "I'd like a registry", checkout
> out ACAP. It's supposed to be a "network registry". That would rock. If
> all the linux apps you know any love become registry aware...esp. Vim, so
> I could edit the registry with a text editor :)
>

Also remember that ACAP is a network protocol, so I could keep my .vimrc
on a server somewhere, instead of having to copy the god damn thing all over
the place.

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