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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Including command output
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:05:22 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1203052203280.15921@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330997549.17258.55.camel@kip-laptop>

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On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Kip Warner wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 23:20 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> If you want to use the automagic way, you can define \BazaarRevision to
>> redefined \BazaarRevision, for example:
>>
>> \def\BazaarRevision
>>        {\ctxlua{context.setevalue(
>>                  "BazaarRevision",
>>                   os.resultof"bzr revno | tr -d '\\n'")}%
>>         \BazaarRevision}
>
> Hey Aditya. I tried the automagic method, but ConTeXt bails:
>
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [text input levels=127].
> \BazaarRevision ...ltof"bzr revno | tr -d '\\n'")}
>                                                  \BazaarRevision
> l.4 }
>
> \BazaarRevision ...ltof"bzr revno | tr -d '\\n'")}
>                                                  \BazaarRevision
> l.4 }
>
> \BazaarRevision ...ltof"bzr revno | tr -d '\\n'")}
>                                                  \BazaarRevision
> l.4 }
>
> ...
> l.58

The attached file works at my end.

>
> Based on what I saw from htop, it looks like it running the command into
> the ground over and over again which is the exact opposite of what we
> are trying to do.

No. It is defining \BazaarVersion once and then reusing the result. Add 
\loggingall to your file to see what is happening.

Aditya

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-06  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-05  3:07 Kip Warner
2012-03-05  4:20 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-03-06  1:32   ` Kip Warner
2012-03-06  3:05     ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2012-03-06  3:11       ` Kip Warner
2012-03-06  3:15         ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-03-06  3:36           ` Kip Warner
2012-03-06  3:38             ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-03-06  3:41               ` Kip Warner
2012-03-06  3:50                 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-03-06  3:56                   ` Kip Warner
2012-03-06  5:04                     ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-03-06  5:37                       ` Kip Warner

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