Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.

From	peter@easthope.ca
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Subject	Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.
Date	2022-01-18 17:30 +0100
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    From: Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 07:22:53 -0500
> "$1" should be quoted there, and the } will need to be on a separate line,
> or else you'll need a semicolon between esac and }.
> 
> I'd also advise against hard-coding paths like /usr/bin/firefox-esr in
> your dot files.  Paths can change over time.  Just use firefox-esr.

> Also, you wouldn't want "exec" here -- running this alias would terminate the shell.

Thanks.  Revised version.

fire () { case "$#" in
  0) firefox-esr --display=:0 file:///home/peter/MY/Peter.html#Links & ;;
  1) firefox-esr --display=:0 "$1" & ;;
  *) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac
}

> For almost every purpose, aliases are superseded by shell functions.

Casting to C and compiling is also a nice exercise.  

Thanks,                               ... P.







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Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-12-31 05:10 +0100
  Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-12-31 21:50 +0100
    Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-01 18:40 +0100
      Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2022-01-01 19:10 +0100
  Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-01-01 22:30 +0100
    Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-02 14:50 +0100
    Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-02 18:30 +0100
    Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-26 15:30 +0100
  Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-12 19:40 +0100
    Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-18 05:40 +0100
      Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-18 13:30 +0100
        Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-18 17:30 +0100
          Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-21 10:20 +0100
            Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-24 00:50 +0100
              Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-01-24 09:00 +0100
            Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-24 19:10 +0100

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