Re: [9fans] Acme tag scrolling/expansion

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

On 8-Oct-05, at 5:46 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> can this work with a 3-button mouse, too?

I'd like it to, but I was unable to find an interaction that didn't  
break the current behaviour: the obvious thing is to manipulate the  
window button.  The second most obvious thing is to add TagExpand and  
TagReduce keywords, but that's a nasty cop-out - they are slow and  
awkward to use, which isn't bad for expanding, but is awful (I tried  
it) for making the tag smaller and reclaiming space.  Pretty much  
every gesture of 3 buttons is already used up.

Any suggestions?
>
> it's hard to type "| awkscript <script>" in acme for this
> reason. it gets difficult to read even for a 3-line BEGIN/
> for-each-line/END script.
For this I'm on uriel's side: I drop my scripts into the guide file  
and chord it to Send or to '|' in the appropriate window.

>
> alternatively, what if any line after the first scrolls and is  
> executed
> on \n, like sam.

Now that I won't implement - I think Rob would shoot me!

Paul