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On 13.03.2012 18:39, Sam Roberts wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Bernd Eggink<monoped@sudrala.de> wrote:In bash (I'm on Linux, as you may have guessed) I would do this: result=$(xterm -e "B>&3" 3>&1)This doesn't work: io.popen[[xterm -e "B>&3" 3>&1]] ?
No, since B communicates with xterm via fd 0 and 1 (sorry, I forgot to mention that) - things like setting text cursor position, querying mouse state etc.
Bernd -- Bernd Eggink http://sudrala.de