Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 21:11:09 +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > Although maybe we don't have to care about POSIX any more as long as > > we're not /bin/sh, who knows. I know a few people who are happily using > > fish (which sucks), but at least it shows that people don't necessarily > > care about POSIX

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
> > I know a few people who are happily using > > fish (which sucks), but at least it shows that people don't necessarily > > care about POSIX semantics in their shell. > > Do these people really use fish as /bin/sh or do they use it as their > interactive shell? The former is _very_ scary, the l

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:27:14PM -0500, Chris Down wrote: > On 2013-11-25 14:16:48 +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > > Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea! > > In my opinion others already got close enough for us not to worry (rc, > mksh, undoubtedly others). We had some discus

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 14:16:48 +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea! In my opinion others already got close enough for us not to worry (rc, mksh, undoubtedly others). We had some discussion about whether we would have a shell included with sbase, but I th

Re: [dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 10:59:10 -0500, Carlos Torres wrote: > so this all gets fixed if you merge in updates to config.def.h into > your config.h. My recommendation if you are using two upstreams with git is to symlink config.h to config.def.h, and then just merge the one file. (although, there are like a

Re: [dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 19:51:33 +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Yes, I understood what they mean, but I thought I did not make any > modifications in config.h,... but seemingly I did,... that's what got > me! It's not just about whether you make changes to config.h, but also about the fact that config.h can

Re: [dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Matthias Beyer
You guys were right, I did not copy the config.def.h file to config.h! --- snip --- On 25-11-2013 16:59:08, Alexander Huemer wrote: > Is '[0][st] (master) ->' your shell prompt? That's highly unlikely. It is! I use xterm (I know, shame on me) and I'm just watching the repo, not using the softwar

Re: [dev] [ANNOUNCE] togs-0.3 (was stem)

2013-11-25 Thread Ross Mohn
On 11/25/2013 09:32 AM, Bryan Bennett wrote: > This looks like an interesting project. However, Togs will fail to run > if /bin/sh is linked to bash (or zsh?) due to Togs attempting to set a > read only variable ($UID) in a couple of functions. Renaming this to > $S_UID seems to fix the entire prob

Re: [dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Carlos Torres
Hello On 11/25/13, Silvan Jegen wrote: > Hi > > You have to make sure that the config.h you are using actually matches > the checked-out version of st.c (i. e. checkout config.def.h and copy > it to config.h for the default settings). > to add to this, bellvolume is declared in config.def.h whi

Re: [dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 04:32:28PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm watching your projects since a couple of months. >From the rest of the email it seems like you not only watched it, but also used st. > Today I tried to update st (i replaced the less important parts with > "(...)" a

Re: [dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Silvan Jegen
Hi On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm watching your projects since a couple of months. Today I tried to > update st (i replaced the less important parts with "(...)" and added two > blank lines before each prompt for readability): > > [0][st] (master) -> git

Re: [dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 04:32:28PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm watching your projects since a couple of months. Today I tried to > update st (i replaced the less important parts with "(...)" and added two > blank lines before each prompt for readability): Could you send these erro

[dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi, I'm watching your projects since a couple of months. Today I tried to update st (i replaced the less important parts with "(...)" and added two blank lines before each prompt for readability): [0][st] (master) -> git remote update (...) [0][st] (master) -> git merge origin/mas

Re: [dev] [ANNOUNCE] togs-0.3 (was stem)

2013-11-25 Thread Bryan Bennett
This looks like an interesting project. However, Togs will fail to run if /bin/sh is linked to bash (or zsh?) due to Togs attempting to set a read only variable ($UID) in a couple of functions. Renaming this to $S_UID seems to fix the entire problem. A patch is attached. commit 87d48f4cef3ef13d776e

Re: [dev] [st] st does not show window name for wmctrl

2013-11-25 Thread Carlos Torres
> 2013/11/25 Martti Kühne : >> How many people commit suicide per year because their application >> windows use utf-8 titles? >> I submitted another "simpler patch" that doesn't revert the setting of WM_NAME to XStringStyle. Since i don't really have a use case for UTF8. The simpler patch only a

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Dimitris Zervas
Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea!

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Martti Kühne
Oh, that's a *shell prompt* as in PROMPT_COMMAND you have there... my bad, I was busy focusing on our efforts to have our own *interpreter*. A shell prompt written in c. What an *utterly* educational idea! cheers! mar77i

Re: [dev] [st] st does not show window name for wmctrl

2013-11-25 Thread Alexander S.
2013/11/25 Martti Kühne : > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Carlos Torres wrote: >> The attached patch reverts to setting WM_NAME to STRING >> and adds _NET_WM_NAME in UTF8_STRING >> > > > How many people commit suicide per year because their application > windows use utf-8 titles? > Why would th

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Martti Kühne
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 13:44, Martti Kühne wrote: >> Staring at the code in horror. >> Something about git and nyancat. >> Without running the code - I have trust issues from similar occasions >> - you're kidding, right? > > The nyancat thing is clearly

Re: [dev] [st] st does not show window name for wmctrl

2013-11-25 Thread Martti Kühne
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Carlos Torres wrote: > The attached patch reverts to setting WM_NAME to STRING > and adds _NET_WM_NAME in UTF8_STRING > How many people commit suicide per year because their application windows use utf-8 titles?