Re: [RP] [Mike Warren <address@hidden>] ratpoison idea

[Simon White]

04-Apr-03 at 09:26, Shawn Betts (address@hidden) wrote :
> Florian Cramer <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I am seriously concerned about conventional window management creeping
> > into ratpoison. - Better leave it as it is, a lean and mean fullscreen
> > window manager with vim-/screen-style split frames. IMHO, the current
> > frame resizing code should do the job of creating a larswm-like screen
> > layout (as shown in the ASCII art screenshot). Maybe one could create a
> > sample .ratpoisonrc for that.
> 
> Well Florian, frankly, it scares me too. There's no way something like
> this would get in rp core. Out of curiousity, what conventional window
> management are you afraid of? Is splitting and resizing pushing the
> limit?
> 
> > It just confuses me that the new frame resizing commands use
> > Emacs-style keybindings while the rest of Ratpoison uses vi-ish
> > keybindings (inherented via GNU screen).
> 
> The resize keys are bit kludgy. Perhaps bindings for hjkl as well as
> fbpn would be appropriate?

At least letting us know what they are when we hit CTRL-modifier-? would
be cool... ;-)

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