Re: [RP] exec program argument

[Jonathan Walther]

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If you can already accomplish it with shell script, then we don't want to
bloat the core binary.  Ratpoison is simple; we continue to make it even
simpler.  For instance, the built in "date" code may eventually go away
entirely, and be replaced by an appropriate key binding to shell command.

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, James Leigh wrote:
> I am not always using X.  Some times I am just typing away in tty1.  I do
> use the X a lot and if I am working from tty1 and I wanted to start
> netscape I could type:
> $ xinit `which sh` -c "((ratpoison &) ; netscape ; ratpoison -k)"
> and X would close after netscape is done, but I would rather simply type:
> $ xinit `which ratpoison` -e netscape
> 
> I am okay without this feature, but I thought that it might not be to hard
> to fork twice at the begining of the program, one to exec the shell program
> and another to waitpid and call the ratpoison -k command.
>   Sometime I want to start an arbitrary program up in a new X, and I
> could/have written a script to ad in the proccess.  It just seemed like a
> feature that should be included, thats all.

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