From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180610211132l4d9f0904j7dfc2d984bab0e72@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:32:32 -0600 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] really basic (stupid) questions, re: beginning sys admin. In-Reply-To: <453A6208.7090108@xmission.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <453A6208.7090108@xmission.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: cfee5706-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Q4) on Un*x, after entering a man page command I can search for a > specific word with /word in a terminal emulator window. you can only do that because somebody decided to pipe the output through 'less' or somesuch. you're percieving it as a gui feature simply because that's the way you've used it right from the very beginning. writing something for rio that simulated this behaviour would be a nice exercise. that said... > How do I perform > the same thing in a rio/rc window (please don't answer "use acme")? ...there's a patch that adds the 'look' command to the middle-button terminal menu so that one can select a string and search for it in that particular window. the patch is sitting on our servers, if whoever wrote it wants to submit it (either to the distribution or separately on /sources) you may use that as a solution.