Fwd: [9fans] Acme and cscope shortcuts

[Mike Casinghino <mike.casinghino@gmail.com>]

On 7/16/05, Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com> wrote:
> > * Holding Alt and clicking button-2 in the tagline would run the
> > tagline command with the selection as an argument. (That would work
> > *great* with the cscope trick above.)
>
> As Charles pointed out, a chord exists already for this.

That's great, I totally missed that in the manual.

> > * Holding Ctrl and clicking button-2 in the tagline would clear the
> > output window before running the command.
>
> This seems of dubious value.  I just Del the output window
> (I assume you mean the dir/+Errors window) when I want it cleared.

That's how I'd been doing this. I would still like to avoid running my
mouse all the way down to the output window, but it works for now.

> > * A Lineno tag keyword that displays line numbers in a text window.
>
> You mean like vi's :set number?  That'd be hard to implement.
> You can get to a particular line with :123 in the tag and you can
> find out where you are with Edit =.

Another neat trick. Looks like I need to study the sam manual.

> > * Oh, and mail so I can finally ditch mutt
>
> Please please please.  Work on this.  Plan 9 has a really nice mail
> system that you won't be able to duplicate easily on Unix but at
> the least we could get a simple acme mail (maybe based on mh)
> going.  There is a framework for writing acme clients in
> src/cmd/netfiles/acme.[ch].

I'll get cracking.

Thanks for all the pointers, everyone.

-Mike