On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Raphaël Proust <raphla...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On 29 March 2013 14:31, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: >>>> […] >>> >>> While I find many of those features useless, some of them are plain >>> cool, and are innovative. Why are we stuck with a text terminal when >>> we aren't using a tty most of the time? Sure simple text modes should >>> always be supported but additional features are cool. I'd love to be >>> able do an easy ls and be able to see my picture previews, why not? >>> It' s not terribly complicated and it sure is useful. >> >> >> I also like the idea of not having a pure-text interaction with the >> computer, but Terminology is definitely pushing things too far. It's >> hard to have a good middle ground. >> >> Alternatively, you could set up plumber and have your terminal be as >> smart as acme: left-click on a .jpg/png/gif/whatever opens an image >> viewer. It separates the two concept (ls and preview) and is dead >> simple. Bonus points: because the two concepts are separate, you can >> have the plumbing rules independent of your terminal so you can set up >> different dispatching easily. > > How does the plumber get hold of the current directory?
As per previous emails in the conversation: it doesn't. Although plumb(1) has a `-w` option for that. So it would be really simple to exec correctly from st's source. Cheers, -- ______________ Raphaël Proust
