Re: [9front] [PATCH] rio: add -label wctl param; improve window(1)

["Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Wed, May 13, 2020, at 2:14 PM, kvik@a-b.xyz wrote:
> 
> You see that the initial argument list stays the same as it is being
> passed along, that is until another round of evaluation inside the
> rc -c subshell where the next layer of quotes is stripped.
> 
> In the argument parsing sense removing the recursive call to window -x
> is the same as skipping the call to 'once' in the above example.
> 
> > window -r 268 0 868 400 -scroll rc -c \
> > 	'''label -f kprint; echo kprint; tail -f /tmp/kprint'''
> > window -r 0 0 128 128 colorclock_l
> > window -r 0 124 128 252 rc -c \
> > 	'''font=/lib/font/bit/dejavusans/unicode.12.font; stats -Ime'''
> 
> These commands run as expected with the patch.

Ah, you're quite right. Thanks for the examples and testing.

> 
> > Now I think of it, I don't really agree with window(1) setting the label
> > at all, but it's a minor point.
> 
> I'm not a fan of automatic labeling either.  Ideally the programs would
> set the label themselves if the user didn't request a name, but I don't
> think this is easily accomplished.

It looks like it's one of those things which ends up a little untidy whichever option is chosen.