Re: [9fans] p9 mice

[Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>]

> > I would recommend trying out the new P9 port to Unix instead of wily.
> > The colour scheme alone is gorgeous.

Agreed.

With my reference to wily I just tried to point out
(hmm... the obvious? oh dear... )
that chording and/or acme style editing can be used
(and learning investment pays back) also outside plan 9,
(and that this has been the case for a while).
With the new port this is even easier and, of course,
it makes the plan9 feel outside plan 9 much more complete.

the wily tutorial I mentioned might be helpful to
new acme users too, though (maybe slightly modified
for slight differences between the two)

Notwithstanding acme's nice colors, one wily feature
I may be missing in acme is the way wily allows
you to use variables to keep your tag names short
(reducing the need to scroll in tags).
If e.g. foo=/long/path/prefix is present in wily's environment,
all occurences of /long/path/prefix  will be replaced by  $foo
in tag names, and button3 click on $foo opens a window
on /long/path/prefix .
I'm sure this and other feature differences hava all been
discussed before, either here or on the wily fans list...


> > Although, I can now no longer easily distinguish my drawterm to
> > my home machine from my work desktop.
> 
> that's why i've stuck with 9wm for now -- it got too confusing having
> two separate desktops that look exactly the same (vnc)...

Hmm. maybe, but border dragging is something I do not want to miss
(gotten too used to it in rio and elsewhere to want to go back)

(typing this on a pc at home running plan 9
 (booted from the file server at work),
 in a vnc window connecting to a vnc server on the sun at work -
 in the vnc session I use the rio port, and type in vi in an xterm.
 wouldn't want to replace the vnc by an exceed session, though)

Axel.