Re: [RP] ratpoison+xbindkey problems...

[Jonathan Walther]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:57:19AM +0530, Vardhan Varma wrote:
> i guess interactive/non-interactive is the wrong stuff to say what i want 
> to say. it's more of X v/s stdin/out that is needed

Right. That is exactly what we meant by interactive/non-interactive.

We've been defining non-interactive as "invoked by rp -c" and
interactive as "invoked inside ratpoison itself".

Shawn, can you look at the behaviors here and comment on them, and
possibly fix them for consistencies sake?

> > rp -c "select"
>  --> pops up the little-edit-box. in -nox mode, it should take from STDIN

In non-interactive mode, it should return without doing anything; either
you provide the window to select on the command line, or not at all.

> > rp -c "select foobar"
> --> pops up the 'error no such window' . in -nox mode, it should print on STDOUT

The error popping up is correct behavior, if window "foobar" doesn't
exist.  Maybe printing to STDERR would be ok too.

> > rp -c "help"
> --> in -nox mode, print on stdout.

In non-interactive mode, should print on stdout, just like the windows
command does.

> > rp -c "windows"
> --> only in -nox mode, should print on stdout.

It already does by default in non-interactive mode.

Jonathan

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