Hi 9fans,

I wrote the attached to listen on a plumb port and make
a given window current when it gets a message.  I'm not
sure how much I will like it: it's nice not to have to
hunt for a buried client program after plumbing something;
on the other hand, sometimes I like to plumb a few urls,
images, or pdfs and view later.  Still, I thought I'd
figure out a way to do it.

The first argument is the port to listen on and the second
is a string to match against the label of the window to
raise.  In my riostart I start my main rc window like this:

window 'raiseplumb web mothra! & raiseplumb edit sam & raiseplumb image page & cat todo; label rc; rc'

(After setting page's label I bind /dev/null over it so it
isn't overwritten) The program could be improved but it
seems to work well enough for a quick implementation.

Other solutions I thought of were to prime the windows I
want to raise by posting their wctl in /srv (since /dev/wsys
isn't in the plumber's namespace) then writing plumb rules
to first raise the window by mounting the wctl, then plumb
to the port; or else patch the client programs to raise
themselves when they get a plumb.

Has anyone else wanted/implemented something like this?

umbraticus