Re: [dwm] ii best practices

2008/4/1, Matthias-Christian Ott <ott_AT_enolink.de>:
> "Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:24:44PM +0200, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> > > I want to start using ii for irc. What discouraged me from doing so was
> > > a proper input method. Currently I know 2 methods to effectively input
> > > text to ii: vim and dinput. I don't like both for some reason.
> > > Do you have any best practices for using ii?
> >
> > echo(1), I'm not using ii but sic, but I usually create a fifo
> > for sending input to sic using echo or sometimes cat(1), if I plan
> > to have longer conversations than the usual hello.
>
>
> But this would require me to write something like each time I want to
> send something to the channel:
>
> $ echo 'Hello' > fifo
> # or
> $ cat > fifo
> Hello^D
>
> Of course you could do:
> $ while true; do cat > fifo; done
>
> But what about this:
>
> +---------------------------+
> | |
> | urxvt |
> | tail -f fifo |
> | |
> | |
> |...........................|
> | input |
> +---------------------------+
>
> The basic idea is to embedd the urxvt window in another window which also
> embedds an input window. The input window could be urxvt running a small
> programme or small X11 programme reading input and writing to the fifo.
> This is much nicer for tiling and feels more like an irc client.
> You could do this with screen of course.
>
> Any other ideas?
>

What I do when I use sic is:
In one dvtm window:
mkfifo /tmp/sicfifo; cat /tmp/sicfifo | sic
In another one:
cat - > /tmp/fifo
And you can also write to sic with:
echo blabla > /tmp/sicfifo
Or even have keystrokes like:
echo `dmenu </dev/null` > /tmp/sicfifo

Or something similar, I'm not testing it.

hth,

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