ile, once again

[hanche@ams.sunysb.edu (Harald Hanche-Olsen)]

But I do have a nice workaround:  We have here a nice little program
called xcb that will, among various other things, print the contents
of the X cut buffer on stdout.  So given the function below, I can now
make a selection with the mouse and run the command `,' to execute the
selection:

fn , b {
  let (tmp=/tmp/es.rc.$pid) {
  catch @ what more {
      rm -f $tmp
      if {!~ $what done} {throw $what $more}} {
    if {~ $#b 0} {b=0}
    xcb -p <={%flatten , $b} > $tmp
    . $tmp
    throw done}}}

Give arguments to , and it will execute the given cut buffers instead.
I like the name , because it reminds me of . (and is easy to type).

- Harald