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RE: [RP] Re: what about... (features)
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Casey Allen Shobe |
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RE: [RP] Re: what about... (features) |
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Thu May 1 04:00:01 2003 |
For what it's worth, I really hope neither of these get used. It is after
all a simple command prompt. I certainly don't want to have the overhead of
emacs nor do I want to have it anywhere near my system, and I don't see why
a nice light window manager has to become dependant on xterm either. I'd
rather not have a constantly-running xterm that I'm not really using for
such a simple purpose.
PostgreSQL has an --enable-readline option, and when you use it, you get a
nice .psql_history in your home directory, tab completion, etc. etc. I
think the best thing would be to have internal optional readline support.
Plus, a .ratpoison_history would be nifty :).
- Casey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: twb [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 1. maĆ 2003 07:06
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [RP] Re: what about... (features)
>
>
> Quoth Michael Livshin <address@hidden>
> > while folks are thinking in this direction, how about writing a
> > simple (in theory, at least) Emacs <-> ratpoison glue, so
> that you'd
> > have a dedicated Emacs instance running all the time, unmapped, and
> > pop up a special minibuffer-only (or not) frame for RP
> command input.
> >
> > pluses:
> >
> > . no need to spawn a whole new xterm process for each command
>
> You can do this with an xterm, too.
> 1) Call an RP-input (C-t !). This makes a new xterm and maps it.
> 2) The next time a newline is pressed, pass it on to xterm
> and unmap it.
> 3) Next time C-t ! is pressed, map the xterm again.
>
> You still have to (un)map it, but it's not a whole new process.
>
> -twb
>
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