[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] "frame stepping"

[The Wanderer]

Diego Biurrun wrote:

> Reimar Döffinger writes:
> 
>>>>>>+then go into pause mode again (any key unpauses).
>>>>>
>>>>>Nitpick: "any other key".
>>>>
>>>>come on, let's keep this one and pull off some bad "where is the
>>>>ANY-key?" jokes on newcomers ;-))
>>>
>>>Leaving aside the lameness and assholishness of that, it misses the
>>>point: it is *not* true that just "any" key will unpause, because if
>>>that were so than the designated framestep key ('s' by that version of
>>>the patch) would also work for unpausing - which it will not.
>>
>>Well, that's no problem since the "ANY" key is the space key ;-) - there
>>really are some keyboards that have "any" written on space...
>>Anyway, I think I did change that before applying...
> 
> Oh, come on, everybody knows that "shift" is the "any key" ;-)

Both of these are irrelevant. It doesn't matter if "the ANY key" will 
unpause the playback; the point is that there *is* at least one key, the 
frame-stepping key, which will *not*. Therefore the statement as written 
is inaccurate, which was my entire point from the beginning.

(Yes, I am capable of appreciating the intended humor of the past few 
posts. It's just that I don't like to see it lead to a point which was 
intended quite seriously being ignored. - and how's *that* for a 
lexically ambiguous sentence?)

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