From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "User &" Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:46:13 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20140811204613.GA52324@shells> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] Sending frequently used command to sam Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e3e7aa2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 >