<div dir="ltr"><div>I&#39;d also like to see <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">[getdir] made vanilla.  There is literally no way to do that without the external. </span></div><div><br></div>you could get rid of [value] to put <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">[getdir] in</span>.  I could count on one hand the amount of times i&#39;ve actually seen that used in patches.<div>
<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Dan Wilcox <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>Heaven forbid we add the 50 odd lines of totally manageable code in getdir.c that have largely been working since it was released in 2005. Nobody needs to get the current canvas dir, except for the recurring request for exactly this every 6 months or so on pd-list!</div>
<div><br></div><div>With that argument, the iemguis would be &quot;badly spent lines of code&quot;. After all we don&#39;t *need* them to use pd ...</div><div class=""><br><div><div>On Mar 10, 2014, at 7:00 AM, <a href="mailto:pd-list-request@iem.at" target="_blank">pd-list-request@iem.at</a> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">On 2014-03-09 14:29, me.grimm wrote:</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
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Hi Miller,<br><br>I know you probably have more pressing problems but it would be<br>nice to get something like [getdir] in vanilla before you hit those<br>100k lines of code OR 50 years are up :)<br></blockquote><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">that&#39;s probably badly spent lines of code.</span></blockquote>
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<div>--------</div><div>Dan Wilcox</div><div>@danomatika</div><div><a href="http://danomatika.com" target="_blank">danomatika.com</a></div><div><a href="http://robotcowboy.com" target="_blank">robotcowboy.com</a></div><div>
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