Re: [RP] Re: ratpoison script to show all windows

[Florian Cramer]

Am Sonntag, 16. November 2003 um 16:16:44 Uhr (-0600) schrieb Joe Corneli:
 
> The behavior of your script has one bug I noticed, though. It appears
> that RET doesn't restore the previous layout if one of the windows
> has a `*' in its title (as does this emacs window in which I am
> typing in a buffer called *mail*). This change seems to fix the
> problem.
> 
> curframe=`ratpoison -c windows | grep "^.\*" | sed -e "s/^\([0-9]*\)\*.*/\1/"`

Thanks, but I think this wouldn't work as soon you had more than 10
windows open and window no. >10 selected, so I suggest to change it to

curframe=`ratpoison -c windows | grep "^[0-9]*\*" | sed -e 
"s/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/"`

Hacking the script, I noticed that some details in ratpoison could
be improved to allow better external scripting:

- The "windows" and "fselect" commands should behave the same (i.e.
  showing window titles and numbers on-screen) as when used
  interactively, since this behaviour would be useful for scripts like
  rpshowall.

- The commandline/terminal output of "windows" could instead be forked
  into a commandline argument, like "ratpoison -l" or "ratpoison
  --listwindows". 

- The terminal output of the latter could be more informative for
  external parsing; it would be great if it could (optionally?) prompt 
  the group membership and the application ID of a window/frame.
  (Maybe the right solution for that would be a format string?!)
  Thus it would, for example, possible to write primitive session 
  management (i.e. restarting all X11 applications used in the 
  last ratpoison session within the same window/frame/group layout) 
  for ratpoison via an external script (which could be plumbed into
  rp as a startup command and shutdown hook).

-F
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