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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Adding history to Rio's windows
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:44:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006f01c02a56$0b820bc0$89c584c3@cybercable.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000928214826.00ada630@mail.real.com>

From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <skipt@real.com>

> Cascading menus wont be necessary. The history
> items would be appended to the bottom of the middle-button menu.
> This is analogous to how the labels of hidden windows
> appear in the bottom of the right-button menu.

exactly what i suggested to rob, many years ago, so that the window manager
worked like sam did; all windows accessible on button 3.  i'd suggested an
ioctl(), to name the windows, but then came along /dev/label.  good thing
ioctl died and ctl files replaced that machine dependent junk.

as i recall, rc used to write a history file, like the 8th ed shell.  the
code
got taken out 'cos no-one used it.  i'm not sure that the window system
should be trying to grok the input/output to work out whether it's a
history thing.

perhaps there's a better approach?





  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-29 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <skipt@real.com>
2000-09-28 23:07 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2000-09-28 23:06   ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-29  4:48     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2000-09-29 20:44       ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2000-09-30  2:30         ` rob pike
2000-09-30 11:02           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2000-09-28 23:29   ` Scott Schwartz
2000-10-01  0:25   ` Richard Uhtenwoldt
     [not found] <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2000-09-29  5:01 ` Russ Cox
2000-09-29  5:26   ` Scott Schwartz
2000-09-29 20:52   ` Boyd Roberts

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