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From: "Dharani Vilwanathan" <dharani@lucent.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
References: <20010620103808.151BA199C1@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Highlighting in Acme
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:35:58 -0400
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rog,

Sorry for bringing up this topic too late. I had a question on Acme
highlighting and you answered it long back.

I tried this option and it didnt seem to work for me with the file
interface. It does work with the right button.

This is what I did. I created a 3 line file say test1:

    % cat test1
    1234567890
    1234567890
    1234567890

Then I opened this file in acme and wrote the following:

    % echo '2-#0+#5,3-#0+#4' > /mnt/acme/9/addr
    echo: write error: bad address syntax
    % echo ':2-#0+#5,3-#0+#4' > /mnt/acme/9/addr
    echo: write error: bad address syntax

Both the writes are failing. Sweeping ":2-#0+#5,3-#0+#4" with right button
pressed works, however.

Am I making any mistake?

Next, I noticed limbo compiler produces something like "test.b:10.5..." in
test.s output. But Acme didnt recognize this addressing properly. Is it that
the corresponding code is not in Acme yet? If so, when will it be available?
Will it be available in both Plan 9 and Inferno versions?

Actually this is an elegant addition to Acme. Addressing a text with
lpos1:cpos1 and lpos2:cpos2 is appealing. This will make things clean.

Thanks
dharani


> bell-labs.com!dharani wrote:
> > If I have to highlight a portion of text, say character 4 to 8 in line
5, in
> > a window in Acme, how can I do it through Acme interface?
>
> when you say "Acme interface" i don't know whether you mean the Acme
> user interface or the Acme program (filesystem) interface.
>
> you've chosen a task that's possible, but not elegant from the user
> interface:  right button click on the text:
> :5-#0+#4,5-#0+#8
> or alternatively:
> :5-#0+#4;+#4
>
> you can give an arbitrary sam-style address there.
> given that the Limbo compiler holds file positions in line.charpos
> format, i was considering adding a hack to my local acme
> that would understand:
>
> :5.4,5.8
>
> and then the compiler could spit out more detailed positions
> that acme could understand (having the compiler spit
> out:
>
> file.b:100-#0+#20,101-#0+#30: some error
>
> seems a bit uncomfortable).
> if you want to do this through the filesystem interface,
> write the address to the addr file, and write "dot=addr" to
> the ctl file.
>
> read the manual.
>
>   cheers,
>     rog.
>