On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Kurt H Maier <karmaf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A feature I wouldn't mind seeing in st would be the ability to spawn >> st as a direct endpoint to a pipe (not sure if that's already >> possible?). This would allow st to be used as a quick popup to display >> information, or as part of a multi-terminal application like an irc >> client, without needing to spawn an extra shell or consume an extra >> pty. > > You want your terminal emulator to replace xmessage? Really?
Actually I think this a good idea, xmessage is awful, and the job of a sane terminal is to display text, so a sane terminal should be able to simply and elegantly replace xmessage. (In Plan 9 rio windows are used to display text for example during the installer, a cool thing is that you can actually dynamically update the text in another window from a script.) uriel
