Re: [RP] Patch to stop shells from being left around

[Mike Meyer]

Doug Kearns <address@hidden> types:
> >I tried
> >writing it as a shell command - then a script - and kept getting bit
> >by backtick parsing not recognizing quotes :-(. So I gave up and wrote
> >it in Python. Apologies to anyone who uses it and has to change the
> >paths.
> >
> 
> Well, here's the little hack that I've been using for a while.
> It's probably even less portable than a python script, and a _whole_ lot 
> uglier :)
> It does, however, use the current value of defwinfmt for the ratmenu labels.

That's actually a nice thing to do. The eval is the trick I missed,
though the use of <(...) is a good trick. I think you could simplify
it by making the second invocation of rp like so:
        <( ratpoison -c "windows ratpoison -c 'select %n'" )

Hmm - one possible problem - what happens if a window vanishes between
invocations?

> Now, if I only I could find the time to patch ratmenu so that we can 
> escape ':' characters in the label.

Yup, that was part of the problem.

        <mike

P.S. Thunder, lightening and 2cm hail here. Thank the gods for UPS's
as the light just moved from inside to outside for a second.

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