Package: mrxvt-full
Version: 0.5.2-2
Severity: minor
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The mrxvt manpage states
-profileN.option value
[...]
N can be any integer between 0 and the compiled in maximum
(default 5). The profile number 0 is special, and contains
default settings which are used for all profiles where
this option is not set (e.g. -profile0.tt mrxvt sets the tab
title to mrxvt for all profiles where the tab title has not
been set). In this case the -profile0. can be omitted
entirely (i.e. -profile0.tt is equivalent to -tt).
However, all over the code you can find logic such as:
xdefaults.c:
if( profileNum < 0 || profileNum >= MAX_PROFILES )
{
entry = optList_size();
break; /* out of range, jump to bad option */
}
Where MAX_PROFILES is the "compiled in maximum". This is confirmed
through user experience. If the "maximum" is set to 5, only profiles up
to 4 may be used. This might seem like five (0-4) but since 0 is not a
profile, but a special marker referring to default settings, this is
pretty clearly not what is intended by this text and value.
(As an aside it seems unfortunate that mrxvt -help does not disclosed
the number of profiles it was compiled with).
Since as any C programmer knows, indexes start with 0, and 0 is often a
special case, it is not clear if this is a coding or documentation
error.
I would personally argue for increasing the number of profiles available
in mrxvt-full to a larger number such as 8 or 10, since the cost is only
a very small amount of memory, and a number of useful mrxvt features are
strongly curtailed with the currently available 4 usable profiles.
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