Bug#520520: clive: usability regression in switch to perl rewrite

[Toni Gundogdu]

Gerfried Fuchs wrote [22 Jun 2009 12:09:00 +0200]:
> * Toni Gundogdu <legatvs at gmail.com> [2009-03-20 18:43:01 CET]:
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda at debian.at> wrote:
>>>  -) Where I formerly used --play=src (or even had the posibility to put
>>> that into the config file) I now have to use --exec with the complete
>>> calling syntax, quite inconvenient. :/
>> This was added in 2.1.7, e.g.:
>>
>> ...
>> [commands]
>>   exec = mplayer -really-quiet %i;
>> ...
>
>  Erm, I just now found out that you seem to have misunderstood me. [...]

> [...] Or not have it in the config file and always do "--exec 'gmplayer %i;'"
> when I want it played.

>  I am really looking for a mode to define the default exec and switch it
> on only when I really want it to be executed, not have that option be
> only in a single switch. [...]

I think we could remedy some of the --exec short-comings
by adding --no-exec. For example (in 2.2.x terms):

% cat >> ~/.cliverc
--exec="gmplayer %i;"

% clive URL
(extract, invoke exec from config)

% clive URL --no-exec
(extract, ignore --exec in config)