Re: [RP] argh. split-screen help.

[Martin Samuelsson]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:09:32PM -0700, shawn wrote:
> >As Martin suggested, you can get ratpoison to echo when you have new
> >messages.  But it wouldn't work for 5 or six emails that queued up
> >while you were out for lunch.
> 
> How come its the VI users who want all the really hard to program
> features?

Hard to program? It's not rp that should echo. It was based on that the 
shellscript should call something like ratpoison --command "echo You've got 
`command_that_counts_mails` new messages."