Re: [9fans] acme bug/annoyance?

Re: [9fans] acme bug/annoyance?

[Fco.J.Ballesteros]

I would also be grateful if acme would backup your unsaved work somehow;
BTW, the linux clone (wily) keeps backups in a rather nice way. It
maintains a directory with  backups and a generated guide file which 
can be used to copy the backup over the original, remove all backups, etc.

Re: [9fans] Virtual memory in BSD and Plan9

[Russ Cox]

	Could you please recommend me a reading on both architectures to
	understand differences between them. I read here that BSD paging has
	some drawbacks to AT&T one (used in Plan9). And I want to make this
	clear for myself.

The discussions here were talking about many-years-old
systems.  I don't think anyone even mentioned Plan 9's VM system,
which is just about the simplest thing you could imagine.
The BSDs have oodles more ``features.''  I'd look in
www.researchindex.com for the latest stuff, and in McKusick et al.
(Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD OS) for older stuff.
You can decide for yourself whether Plan 9 needs any of it.

Russ

Re: [9fans] Virtual memory in BSD and Plan9

[William Josephson]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:55:25PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> The discussions here were talking about many-years-old
> systems.  I don't think anyone even mentioned Plan 9's VM system,
> which is just about the simplest thing you could imagine.
> The BSDs have oodles more ``features.''  I'd look in
> www.researchindex.com for the latest stuff, and in McKusick et al.
> (Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD OS) for older stuff.
> You can decide for yourself whether Plan 9 needs any of it.

You probably want to take a look at Charles Cranor's PHd thesis from
Washington on UVM.  If I recall correctly, some of the *BSDs (NetBSD,
FreeBSD?) have picked it up or at least borrowed ideas.

 -WJ

[9fans] acme bug/annoyance?

[Matt]

Hi,

I just started a new instance of Acme

typed some code in an empty yellow window which was a directory
listing of an empty directory, I'd put the filename in the titlebar
but not saved the file.

All was going well until I resized the column and lost all my typing.

Not the end of the world but not very user friendly either.

An instance of where DWIM would win over "you have to have the text in
a file already, stupid"

Matt

Re: [9fans] acme bug/annoyance?

[rob pike]

A nasty problem here.  When you resize a directory window, acme should recolumnate
the output, but I couldn't see how to get that right while keeping the user's text, so I
just started over.  A directory window is therefore a kind of scratch typing space, which
is actually a feature I like but is clearly a consequence of, rather than integral to, the design.

I suppose the documentation should mention this.

-rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Matt <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:09 AM
Subject: [9fans] acme bug/annoyance?


> Hi,
> 
> I just started a new instance of Acme
> 
> typed some code in an empty yellow window which was a directory
> listing of an empty directory, I'd put the filename in the titlebar
> but not saved the file.
> 
> All was going well until I resized the column and lost all my typing.
> 
> Not the end of the world but not very user friendly either.
> 
> An instance of where DWIM would win over "you have to have the text in
> a file already, stupid"
> 
> Matt
> 
> 

Re: [9fans] acme bug/annoyance?

[Scott Schwartz]

> I suppose the documentation should mention this.

For that matter, maybe such windows should be tinted differently.