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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] watch a second mailbox
Date: Tue,  6 Apr 2004 10:45:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <243c03345533dd02578210ec76349f1d@plan9.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B3F5582A.7385B6F6@mail.gmail.com>

> i do this all the time, but use the plumber rather than a separate file.
> that is, if faces is receiving plumbing messages and upas/fs
> is always watching all relevant mailboxes (which may mean
> multiple upas/fs instances), it just works.
> 
> -rob

% plumber; upas/fs -f /some/other/file; faces -i

same trick (starting a new plumber) works when you want to keep
different acme sessions for different things -- i have a second acme
just for reading mail which i keep deep in the background.
right-clicking on the face of a new email brings it on top.

andrey



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-06 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-06 16:29 Matthias Teege
2004-04-06 16:35 ` Rob Pike
2004-04-06 16:45   ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2004-04-07  5:51     ` Matthias Teege
2004-04-07 20:04       ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-04-06 16:39 ` plan9

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