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Re: [RP] Displaying output of commands in the bar
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Benno |
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Re: [RP] Displaying output of commands in the bar |
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Tue May 20 00:40:02 2003 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
This one time, at band camp, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote:
>Isn't that patch redundant? You can already do stuff like this:
>
>bind a exec ratpoison -c "echo `command`"
>
>If you want to control stdin/sterr you can put a pipe within the
>backticks. What else could you wish for?
Well, I did note that is could be done otherwise, however that
seems to be an awful lot of overhead there. Forking another
copy of ratpoison, then the IPC to transfer it back to ratpoison.
Benno