[9fans] sam enhancement

[9fans] sam enhancement

[boyd, rounin]

i've been thinking about how too produce simple html
and arbitrary text formatting based on piping the text
through a script.

i think it fits in with the model, i nearly have a first cut
[based on the netlib lunix sam].

the plan is this, on button 2:

    - after Search there's another menu entry (if necessary)
    - selecting/clicking on it runs the last |cmd on the selected text

so, with a few scripts:

    html/i
    html/b
    ...

you can format the text, say:

    C/comment

i coded most of it today (when i wasn't coding FPGA drivers).

i think it's a good idea 'cos it fits the model and uses no built
in programability; it's a small amount of code.

i'm very close to having it coded and after it's been tested
i'll post the rcs diffs.

Re: [9fans] sam enhancement

[Rob Pike]

>
>     - after Search there's another menu entry (if necessary)
>     - selecting/clicking on it runs the last |cmd on the selected text

many don't realize that if you type a plain
	|
in the command window in sam, it runs the last pipe command
again.  (it stores only one command, so < | > all share, but it's
a convenience nonetheless.)

-rob

Re: [9fans] sam enhancement

[boyd, rounin]

> many don't realize that if you type a plain
> |
> in the command window in sam, it runs the last pipe command

didn't know that, but i like to mouse and not swap windows.

Re: [9fans] sam enhancement

[Geoff Collyer]

I had missed that too, but there it is in sam(1):

          In any of <, >, | or !, if the Plan 9 command is omitted the
          last Plan 9 command (of any type) is substituted.

and similar wording was in the 9th ed. Unix version of sam(1).

Re: [9fans] sam enhancement

[Wilhelm B. Kloke]

In article <032c01c3f5bb$8fc0c2d0$67844051@SOMA>,
boyd, rounin <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>i've been thinking about how too produce simple html
>and arbitrary text formatting based on piping the text
>through a script.

Sometimes when I used sam, I had the wish to access the bracketing
structures in (extended) regular expressions. The functionality is there,
as you can MOVE to the pairing bracket. But I did not find how to access
this comfortably (i.e. for use in x commands).

Does anybody think about the implementation for this?

--
Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke
Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund
Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257

Re: [9fans] sam enhancement

[boyd, rounin]

i have thought of allowing < and > for generality, but
i'm not sure it's useful, despite the fact that it would
be general.