Selfdefine xterm command

Author

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker

(Uploaded by Christopher Bratusek)

Synopsis

taken from: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71895

This patch allows that the user-defined 'xterm' command is also used, then viewing the info file.

Patch

--- lisp/sawfish/wm/commands/help.jl.orig	Tue Feb 19 02:59:24 2002
+++ lisp/sawfish/wm/commands/help.jl	Tue Feb 19 03:01:25 2002
@@ -29,12 +29,13 @@
 	  rep.system
 	  rep.regexp
 	  rep.io.files
-	  sawfish.wm.commands)
+	  sawfish.wm.commands
+	  sawfish.wm.commands.xterm)
 
   ;; Info
 
   (define (help-call-info document node)
-    (system (format nil "xterm -e info '%s' '%s' >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &"
+    (xterm (format nil "info '%s' '%s'"
 		    document node)))
 
   (define (help-call-info-gnome document node)

Community's reasons for inclusion or rejection

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• vote: yes. simple thing, info is still hardcoded, but better avoid requiring xterm when term is configurable already. GSR 21:29, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
• vote: yes. I think it's better to avoid hard-coded calls as much as it's possible. -Ferk^(talk!) 02:43, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

• -- Commited (rev4232) Flashrider [Christopher Bratusek] 10:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)