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

[Mike Meyer]

Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> types:
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> If thats part of the problem, I can fix it.

It means you have to mangle the names before you use them, which
causes headaches in shell scripts. In python, it was a breeze. I'll
include the latest version of that script here, which uses the new %l
format.

> What do you guys think of having a syntax for ratmenu of
> "menuitem" "command" "menuitem" "command" to replace
> "menuitem":"command" "menuitem":"command"?  This would make it work just
> like dialog.

Two problems. One is easy to fix - make "-" for the "command" mean use
menuitem for the command. Second, can you get the changes back to
9menu, or make ratmenu respond to mouse clicks? I still use both, and
share menu entries between them.

Hmm - maybe there's one fix for both cases. The ":" is really only an
issue if you're trying to generate menus dynamically. How about a
switch "-nocolon" or some such which triggers the above
behavior. Without it, you get the 9menu parsing. With it, you get the
syntax where the commands and menuitmes are separate arguments?

        <mike

Oh yeah, the new python script. It's a lot longer than the shell
script now. But it's OO, which means it must be good :-).
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Mike Meyer <address@hidden>                     http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
Q: How do you make the gods laugh?              A: Tell them your plans.



#!/usr/opt/bin/python

"""Use the ratpoison command to build a menu of windows to hand to ratmenu.

Any arguments will be passed to ratmenu before the list of window menu 
entries."""

import sys, os

class Window:
    "A description of a ratpoison window"

    def __init__(my, line, newsep = '!'):
        "Init with a ratpoison window format of %l:%n:%s:%t"
        order, my.number, my.status, name = line[:-1].split(':', 3)
        my.name = name.replace(':', newsep)
        my.order = int(order)

    def __cmp__(my, other):
        return cmp(my.order, other.order)

    def __repr__(my):
        return '%s%s%s:ratpoison -c "select %s"' % \
               (my.number, my.status, my.name, my.number)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    winfile = os.popen('ratpoison -c "windows %l:%n:%s:%t"')
    winlist = map(Window, winfile.readlines())
    winfile.close()
    winlist.sort()
    os.execv("/usr/X11R6/bin/ratmenu", sys.argv + map(repr, winlist))