Re: [RP] Why?

[Ryan Yeske]

Mike Meyer <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, I've continued the ongoing quest to make frames citizens of the
> same class as windows, having just added "numberframe", "titleframe",
> "selectframe" and "frames" commands. No patches yet - I'm still
> restructuring code to better reuse the list processing code. LISP
> programmers should like it :-).

I look forward to seeing it :)
 
> But this leads to a couple of questions, like:
> 
> Why does the number command not spit that output to standard out if
> it's not interactive? I think that would be useful in a script. I know
> I can get it other ways, but.... Ditto for the info command, and
> possibly others.

Because we never thought of that, and no one ever pointed it out,
until now :)
 
> >From before, why does barloc take an int, but all the window
> positioning things take a gravity? This isn't a screen issue, as
> there's no such command in screen.

I don't know about this, AFAIK its just the way it was originally
coded before there were any other positioning things in ratpoison that
took gravity.
 
> If I happen to be working on these things, I just may fix them in
> passing.

Excellent.

Ryan