Rather than running status-left, status-right and window title #() with popen

immediately every redraw, queue them up and run them in the background,
starting each once every status-interval. The actual status line uses the
output from the last run.

This brings several advantages:

- tmux itself may be called from inside #() without causing the server to hang;
- likewise, sleep or similar doesn't cause the server to block;
- commands aren't run excessively often when redrawing;
- commands shared by status-left and status-right, or used multiple times, will
  only be run once.

run-shell and if-shell still use system()/popen() but will be changed over to
use this too later.
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Nicholas Marriott
2009-10-10 15:03:01 +00:00
parent 4658c063d5
commit 6bca92db4d
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@ -1437,6 +1437,11 @@ may contain any of the following special character sequences:
The #(command) form executes
.Ql command
as a shell command and inserts the first line of its output.
Note that shell commands are only executed once at the interval specified by
the
.Ic status-interval
option: if the status line is redrawn in the meantime, the previous result is
used.
#[attributes] allows a comma-separated list of attributes to be specified,
these may be
.Ql fg=colour