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

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,

> >>>>>>+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?)

Quite good, I don't understand it :-(.
I could now argue that the framestep key will actually unpause the video
as well, although only for one frame.
But as you can see in the manpage, I agreed with you,
as I worked your suggestion into the patch before applying...
I actually think Stefan misunderstood what your nit was about...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger