On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:39 +0200, SzG wrote: > Hello, > > Yes I agree, there is a built-in solution for each use case. But I'm so > extremely lazy that I preferred working day and night on my "go" script > instead of having to memorize a few hotkeys. But now it's paradise! > > One remark: typing "foo" in a terminal will start the GTK application > "foo", but you will have 2 problems: > > * your terminal gets blocked while "foo" is running > * closing your terminal will kill "foo" > > But "go foo" will do the job perfectly.
So will "foo&". I don't want to rain on your parade, because this seems like a neat project. But it seems to me that the reason the "start" command on Windows needs to handle programs is that it's hard to launch programs otherwise. It's a solution for a problem that we don't have. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
