Re: [RP] Patch to stop shells from being left around

[Doug Kearns]

Mike Meyer wrote:

> Doug Kearns <address@hidden> types:
>
> > Mike Meyer wrote:
> >
> > > That's why I wrote the "ratpoison-get-a" script, to find a foo if I've
> > > got it running, and if not to run a foo. I tend to have a lot of
> > > things running at one time. Which is why the patch after the next was
> > > going to be one to do something about the bar for "windows". I find
> > > that it's frequently wider than my screen.
> > If your still keen something similar to the new 'windowlist' command in 
> > screen-3.9.11beta1 would be great :)
>
> Nah - ratmenu will does the trick with a little scripting. 

Yeah, that's what I've been doing but I'm not sure it's quite as 
flexible as screen's windowlist command.
Although, I haven't really played with that much yet and probably 
shouldn't comment.

> I tried
> writing it as a shell command - then a script - and kept getting bit
> by backtick parsing not recognizing quotes :-(. So I gave up and wrote
> it in Python. Apologies to anyone who uses it and has to change the
> paths.

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Well, here's the little hack that I've been using for a while.
It's probably even less portable than a python script, and a _whole_ lot 
uglier :)
It does, however, use the current value of defwinfmt for the ratmenu labels.

#v+
#!/bin/bash

# NOTE: need to replace ratmenu delimiter : with # in label names

RATMENU="ratmenu -style dreary -bg black -fg yellow"
eval "$RATMENU $( paste -d: <( ratpoison -c windows | tr ':' "#" | sed 
's/"/\\"/g' ) \
                           <( ratpoison -c 'windows %n' ) \
                           | sed "s/:\([0-9]\+\)$/:ratpoison -c 'select 
\1'/;s/^\(.*\)$/\"\1\"/" \
                           | tr '\n' ' ' )"
#v-

Now, if I only I could find the time to patch ratmenu so that we can 
escape ':' characters in the label.

Regards,
Doug