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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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Sun May 18 23:39:06 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?
Being able to bind to make a command such as echo_echo so I can
just have
:echo_exec ls.
Now if the alias command was extended so I could do:
alias echo_exec ratpoison -c "echo `%s`"
Then that would also be fine. Which is fairly easy to implement in
the trivial case.
Benno