On 2020-04-13 20:33, dan d. <dandun...@gmail.com> put forth the proposition: > > Thanks to those who provided suggestions on this topic. > > To recap, using a keybinding for the exec command to run a shell script > didn't work with the stuff command. > I wanted stuff to send keystrokes to a program to act as a macro, it was in > the shell script. > > Doing some tinkering, if I ran the shell script from the cli in one window it > provided the macro function for the program in another window. > Likewise running the screen command for stuff directly in the cli also > worked, as did an alias or function in the cli. > > Eeven as it worked as desired above, there is still no joy using the exec > from within the program. > > I can run the shell script but not an alias or function with the exec. Is > there a way to run an alias or function with exec?
Aliases and functions set in the shell are usually only available in interactive shells. -- Dave The antibloat squad! For those interested in no bloat, minimal desktop Linux gopher://tty1.uk/1/?minimal-linux http://tty1.uk/minimal-linux #minimallinux @ chat.freenode.net
