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

[The Wanderer]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> Hi,

>>> 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 :-(.

How about "lead to a situation in which a particular point, which was
intended quite seriously, gets ignored"? More awkward in at least one
sense, but perhaps less confusing.

> 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...

...and I misread the man page. Before making the previous post, I
searched for "any key" and found the description of the pause command
itself (immediately above) which still uses that phrasing; I assumed
that the only place the term would appear was in the patch in question,
and thus that my suggested change had not been made.

The Pause command description should probably be updated to reflect the
new reality, but I'm not sure how to express it without being either
inaccurate or quite awkward. About the best I've been able to come up
with is "(any key not bound to another command unpauses)", but that
feels undesirably verbose and while accurate is also imprecise - most
keys which *are* bound to other commands will *also* unpause.

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       The Wanderer

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