From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <1532251674.730116.1448792856.40E2B7D4@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: "Ethan A. Gardener" To: Ryan Gonzalez , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" References: <1532179143.3742505.1448197440.4A02E3CA@webmail.messagingengine.com> <164bd6dd850.27a3.db5b03704c129196a4e9415e55413ce6@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <164bd6dd850.27a3.db5b03704c129196a4e9415e55413ce6@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:27:54 +0100 Subject: Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d95ccc16-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > > While I'm replying here, might as well point out that, if you're going to > do this, I think one thing that could maybe be interesting would be for the > files to potentially contain rich data, not just plain text? Kind of like > TempleOS or systemd's journal does. I had some idea of structured pipes, but that idea's been on the shelf so long it's synapse-rotted. I was thinking of ls ps and others outputting key-value pairs, fields of which could then be selected by name. I suppose that would make for a relatively complex terminal, but it could also mean you could select different fields in the terminal after a slow job completes. This is somewhere in the top 5 things to work on, after the text editor and portability. > Google Groups and Freelist are the best. Google Groups has a terrible UI > but also has better spam filters IME. Thanks -- The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer