On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:56:01AM -0600, Lucas Bergman wrote:
> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > David Z Maze wrote:
> >
> > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked?
>
> The '||' operator does this, like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> gnuclient "$@" || xemacs -noma
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Z Maze wrote:
>
> > See earlier commentary about XEmacs; gnuclient(1) is the XEmacs
> > equivalent to emacsclient, and it does claim to support a -nw
> > option. I could see things being unhappy if you set $EDITOR to
> > that, but it's easy enough to
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:29:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked?
> > I feel like I've seen such tests, but I tried one and can't make it
> > work for me:
> >
> > #!
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked?
> I feel like I've seen such tests, but I tried one and can't make it
> work for me:
>
> #! /bin/bash
> if [ 'gnuclient -q $*' ]; then
That's definitely wrong: 'gnu
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:54:48PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> While this doesn't help your actual problem, you should probably be
> aware that 'emacs' and 'xemacs' are separate programs, either of which
> can run in X or not in X. ('xemacs -nw' works;
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