[vdr] Re: Error handling vs. user friendliness.

[Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>]

> > I started a recording, forgot about it, and started to throw away
> > channels.conf entries I am not interested in.
>
> I doubt that, because VDR won't let you delete a channel which has
> a timer programmed on it - or did you find a way to actually do this?

I'm doing editing of channels.conf with an editor and an awk script
(the latter is to weed out all non-FTA channels - hint at another
often requested feature :-)
Not to say this is a good thing, but it is at least _possible_ that
channels and timers get inconsistent. Yes I know, people who hand-edit
channels.conf should know what they are doing...

> > Then I had a hard time to find out which entries
> > were actually bad.
>
> Didn't VDR list the offending line numbers in the log file?

What really would help here is to list _all_ broken entries in the log
before exiting, not just the first one. (Try once to fix a
channels.conf with 50 duplicates...)

Olaf