Re: [RP] cleaning up cmd_clock

[Gergely Nagy]

Thus spoke shawn <address@hidden> on 2001-04-13 02:02:50:
> >Shawn showed me a better one yesterday on IRC:
> >bind ^a exec ratpoison --command "echo `date`"
> 
> I'm a bit worried about relying on the date command although its a
> pretty standard util. It wouldn't be overly hard to be able to ifdef
> each command out, so you could streamline your binary and reimplement
> some commands in your ratpoisonrc...and get rid of commands you don't
> need.
> 

Oh well, ratpoison still relies on xterm...
To be honest, I like both ideas (#ifdefing and binding). However,
bindig sounds a little bit better. That way one can easily redefine
it if date does not work (*shiver*), while if it's ifdefed, one will
have to edit the sources.

Cheers,
 Gergely Nagy

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