From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <02fd297e962d65e45512d8691c481f97@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:29:34 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Searching for text outside Acme In-Reply-To: <44E7596C.6060100@sdf.lonestar.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: a495e772-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 in the spirit of smacme... if you're using p9p, i put a copy of 9term with b3 menu items for forward and reverse searching. i but a posixthreads binary there too. /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/9term.look(.tar)?.bz2 the reason for the binary is that this was built for a very old version of p9p (before russ added the per-window devdraw.) so i'm not sure if it will compile anymore. i used to use this quite a bit, but it, like linux, has fallen into disuse here. i just didn't have the heart to put that into rio. - erik On Sat Aug 19 13:34:10 CDT 2006, newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: > yard-ape@telus.net wrote: > > I'm curious: how did Plan9 users search through text output in a window (before they all used Acme)? Plumb output to Sam? Whither that old search feature from the old standalone unix 9term? > > > > -Derek > Beats me. I don't like having to use acme (it's a bother when I need to > start it just to search through some text, so I'd like to know what I > can *still* do. The real solution, of course, is to port less to Plan 9. > -- > Benn Newman | http://www.tip9ug.jp/who/newmanbe/