On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
On 25 March 2011 13:47, Benjamin R. Haskell 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.
Interesting to know. Thanks.
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
Huh. Okay. In the same way that wmii was a departure for me from
"normal"/"mainstream" wm's I guess I just have to get used to the local
idioms.
(another reason why I named dwm dynamic rather than static).
Seems slightly backwards to me (static set of rules, rather than
dynamically-assigned set of tags). But I can see what you mean. I'll
stop trying to drive my nail in with a screwdriver, so to speak.
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Thanks much,
Ben
