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

[Doug Kearns]

Jonathan Walther wrote:

> If thats part of the problem, I can fix it.

That would be nice.
':' is an extremely common character in window titles and I'm yet to 
find a satisfactory substitute character when replacing it. Who would 
have thought that a unique character was, well, unique.

> 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.

Well that's what I'd like, but I don't use 9menu and I'm not sure if 
compatibility with it is important for other ratmenu users or not. Other 
than that, I can't see any advantage to keeping the delimiter character.

<snip>

Here's the example shell script again with Mike's suggestion included.

#v+
#!/bin/bash

# NOTE: need to replace ratmenu delimiter : with # in label names

RATMENU="ratmenu -style dreary -bg black -fg yellow"

eval "$RATMENU $( paste -d: <( ratpoison -c windows | tr ':' "#" | sed 
's/"/\\"/g' ) \
                           <( ratpoison -c "windows ratpoison -c 
'select %n'" ) \
                           | sed "s/^\(.*\)$/\"\1\"/" \
                           | tr '\n' ' ' )"
#v-

Thanks,
Doug