[TxMt] Latex Config and backward compatibility questions

[Allan Odgaard]

On 26. Jul 2007, at 16:39, Robin Houston wrote:

> On 25/07/07, Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1 at macromates.com> wrote:
>> Just for the records; the result of 'defaults' looks like old-style
>> plist, but it is not. As of such, the result is only useful as a
>> human-readable format.
>
> Surely it is at least useful for reading single preference items, e.g.
>
>  last_root=$(defaults read -app TextMate NSNavLastRootDirectory)
>
> in a shell script?

Not really, e.g.:

     % defaults write test foo bar && defaults read test foo
     bar

     % defaults write test foo 'æble' && defaults read test foo
     \346ble

     % defaults write test foo '⌘' && defaults read test foo
     \u2318

So in addition to the coercing of integers, booleans, and dates into  
strings, there is the problem that non-ASCII strings are returned  
using escape codes for the non-ASCII part.