On 10/4/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:33:43PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> > Thinking a bit more about this, it should be possible to automate this
> > completely.
> >
> > function --on-variable DISPLAY check_universal_display
> > if set -qU DISPLAY
>
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:33:43PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> Thinking a bit more about this, it should be possible to automate this
> completely.
>
> function --on-variable DISPLAY check_universal_display
> if set -qU DISPLAY
>set -eg DISPLAY
> end
> end
you mean you have features i
On 10/2/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> skrev:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:42:08PM +0200, Axel
> > Liljencrantz wrote:
> > > Hope the forwarding doesn't mess up the formating
> > completely.
> >
> > many extra line breaks unfortunately
--- Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
skrev:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:42:08PM +0200, Axel
> Liljencrantz wrote:
> > Hope the forwarding doesn't mess up the formating
> completely.
>
> many extra line breaks unfortunately, makes the
> quotes hard to read.
> but thankfully your replies start wit
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:42:08PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> Hope the forwarding doesn't mess up the formating completely.
many extra line breaks unfortunately, makes the quotes hard to read.
but thankfully your replies start with an empty line so that is easy
enough to pick out.
> > But
There seems to be some trouble with gmail and
sourceforge. Specifically all mails I've sent the last
few days have gone to the bitbucket. I'm resending
them from this temporary address. Hope the forwarding
doesn't mess up the formating completely.
Hi all!
I'm back from my vacation. Glad to see t
On 9/22/06, Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Why do we have builtins at all?
> (1) Things like ``set`` are builtin because a subprocess can't modify
> the shell's state.
> (2) Things like ``while ... end`` are builtins to have special syntax
> recognized by the parser.
> Function
Universal variables gave me a crazy idea. I don't know yet what to do
about it, so I decided to toss it here rather than think alone.
Builtins and functions are evil from the user's perspective, because
they are invisible to other programs. E.g. last week I tried ``env
BROWSER=links help ...`` w
