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   Anthk (anthk@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 01:16:07 JST Anthk

   • Julia Evans

   @b0rk you can spawn anything under an xterm/vt without any shell at all.
   Once your prog ends, your terminal either exits or stays there with -hold.

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     Anthk (anthk@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 01:16:04 JST Anthk

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     • Julia Evans

     @b0rk I used to do that when I used a WM spawing everything from menues.
     'Xterm -e mc' and so on.
     Now with cwm with xterm+tmux I don't need to spawn any new xterm windows at all.

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 01:16:06 JST Julia Evans

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     @anthk do you ever do that in practice?

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     Anthk (anthk@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 05:34:33 JST Anthk

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     • Julia Evans
     • Chris Burton

     @burtyb @b0rk For most of that I'd just use an alias with autocomplete which is faster.

     I didn't use a mouse in months.

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     Chris Burton (burtyb@widget.uk)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 05:34:34 JST Chris Burton

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     • Julia Evans

     @b0rk @anthk in the old days we'd have ppp, muds, shutdown, reboot, etc. in place of a shell if that's what you mean.