Re: [RP] CVS updates

[Ryan Yeske]

Ben Leslie <address@hidden> writes:

> <snip>
> 
> > Notice this means that 'C-t:' no longer runs shell commands.  This
> > binding has been moved to a more sensible home at 'C-t!'.  It will
> > also now accept arguments, so you can type 
> > 
> > C-t! xmessage foo bar baz
> > 
> > and it will work.  The shell command name is exec, so this even works:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Please test and comment, criticize, hack, patch, etc.
> > 
> > Ryan
> 
> Being able to pass command paremeters to C-t! is really great! Glad to 
> have that now.
> 
> I was thinking about something else today. I had another idea for
> application launching today, which is probably crap but see what you think.
> 
> Often I find myself opening a terminal and then just launching one
> interactive program (eg: mutt, bitchx, psql, python).
> 
> This has a couple of disadvantages, first one is that the window name
> will just be "rxvt" which isn't helpful when you have 6 or 7 "rxvt"
> windows. Also you quit the program and then need to quit rxvt. (Ok,
> I'm being really picky here ;).
> 
> Now I found you can startup rxvt with a -e parameter and it will 
> launch a terminal window with the specified program running and also 
> name the window appropriately.
> 
> I was wondering if it would be useful/make sense to create an action
> which do this automagically. eg: hit C-t@ (arbitary and just coz it
> is the key next to !).
> 
> Comments?

I think that is reasonable.  I have found myself typing rxvt -e lynx
www.blah.org recently, it'd be nicer to hit C-tC-! or something (we
can now differentiate between C-t! and C-tC-! and even C-tM-! or
C-tCM-! or C-tCMS-! etc etc) to get a prompt where i can just type
lynx.www.blah.org.

run time keybinding soon...stay tuned!

Ryan

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