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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'euro symbol' special in acme interface?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:07:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203291307.g2TD7TL19608@copernicus.cs.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:23:49 -0500." <b8e73e9e1626267c87a7a09413f994e7@plan9.bell-labs.com>

> > Today I tried to update the coffeelist script I mentioned sometime
> > before, such that the 'field name' 'payable' is replaced by the euro
> > sign (made using 'compose' e$ ).
[...]

> Wow.  That's quite the shell script.

I hope it can be made more simple. Keep in mind it's my first attempt
at programming acme from rc :-) (having no experience with the acme
interface, doing the same in C seemed even more scary to me). The hope
was that it might be used as an example, to built upon... (oh well :-)

> Try replacing read with sed 1q in your shell definitions.  
[...]

Last night I played with it at home, and when it was obvious that
the selection was made correctly, I looked at the reading part,
tried cat and then sed 1q and it worked.
Thanks for the hint, and for explaining the problem!

Axel.





  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-29 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-29  5:23 Russ Cox
2002-03-29 13:07 ` Axel Belinfante [this message]
2002-04-03 13:01 ` [9fans] finding acme window id from shell script? Axel Belinfante
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-28 18:27 [9fans] 'euro symbol' special in acme interface? Axel Belinfante

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