Re: [RP] Displaying output of commands in the bar

[Benno]

This one time, at band camp, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote:
>Isn't that patch redundant? You can already do stuff like this:
>
>bind a exec ratpoison -c "echo `command`"
>
>If you want to control stdin/sterr you can put a pipe within the
>backticks. What else could you wish for?

Being able to bind to make a command such as echo_echo so I can 
just have 

:echo_exec ls.

Now if the alias command was extended so I could do:

alias echo_exec ratpoison -c "echo `%s`"

Then that would also be fine. Which is fairly easy to implement in 
the trivial case.

Benno