Re: [9fans] Sending frequently used command to sam

["User &" <homer@awesom.eu>]

With no plumber running
  % echo 'B /etc/passwd' > /tmp/.sam.$USER.$DISPLAY
sends text to command window.

Hope this can help!
See $PLAN9/src/cmd/samterm/plan9.c:/^extstart called
from io.c in case plumbstart() fail, as stated in sam(1).

With plumber running:
  % echo /etc/passwd| plumb -i -d edit -a action=showfile
Reading $PLAN/src/cmd/samterm/plan9.c:/^plumbformat, seems
you can't do much but 'showfile' for now :-)

After a quick look to the code, I doubt one can easily have
more than a single command window.

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 01:54:17PM +0200, Yuning Feng wrote:
> I use sam in plan9port. I would like to wrap a sam command '.,$ > pv'
> into a very short one so that I can issue it easily without searching
> back in the command window. A similar command is '?\n\n?,/\n\n/ > pv',
> which might better justify this shortening. To achieve my goal, I have
> two ideas in mind:
>
> 1. If I can open more than one command window, than I can leave the
> string in one of them, and 'send' as needed, but is this possible?
>
> 2. The manual page mentions that sam listens to the edit port of plumb
> or sam.user named pipe. If they are available, I can communicate to
> sam by them. However, for the named pipe, I am not able to find
> sam.user in /tmp/ns.(username).:0, where the font server lives in. For
> the plumb, it is a little magical to me and I scratched my head and
> tried for a while but not getting anywhere.
>
> Hopefully some of you could shed me some light.
>
> Yuning
>