On 25 March 2011 13:47, Benjamin R. Haskell <suckl...@benizi.com> wrote:
> [OT] Where did everyone pick up this shell scripting style with the extra
> newline? ("while x\ndo\n" instead of "while x ; do\n"?)Old plain sh required the newline style (not sure if heirloom sh supports the semicolon list terminator). Of course pdksh or bash support both styles. So just a matter of style. > I omitted too many details. One reason I don't do that is that it's not > just "dwm" that I'm doing this for. I'm migrating (possibly/probably) from > wmii, so I'd also like to be able to respawn into wmii (or ion3 or ...). I > modified spawn() to handle any of those cases by not forking. > > But beyond that, looping or manually launching dwm doesn't solve the problem > that all the tag information is lost between restarts. wmii gets around it > by dumping the tag information into X props (still loses layout info, but > keeping the tags is far better than dumping everything onto a single tag). > Has anyone patched dwm to do something similar? In dwm this is usually done pre-actively through rules, not post-actively through state dumps (another reason why I named dwm dynamic rather than static). Cheers, Anselm
