Re: [RP] Ratpoison for laptop and apm

[Gergely Nagy]

> > ratpoison -c "message $(apm-status)"
> >
> > Using aliases and bind, you could achieve the same thing, without
> > touching ratpoison code. That'd keep it smaller.
> >
> 
> Exact, inside xterm, I can do
> ratpoison -c "echo `apm`"
> and get that I want, because the shell replaces `apm` by the report of apm 
> command.
> but when I enter
> echo `apm`
> or
> echo exec apm
> at the ratpoison prompt, I get exactly what I have keyed, and no more

I was thinking of something like this:

alias apm exec ratpoison -c "echo $(apm)"

I don't have apm, but C-t bind h exec ratpoison -c "echo $(echo foo)"
worked correctly. (C-t h showed "foo")