Re: [9fans] Hack for acme

[Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>]

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What we do is to make our changes and after experience says if
we are using them or not, we keep them or delete them. I just deleted
the Ignore command I added time ago to acme because we found that we
have seldom used it.

Regarding 3-1, paurea is using it a lot on directories, I've used it
several times these days, but I still don't know if that's really useful
for me or not. If after some time we find that we seldom use it, we'll
delete that feature; but I think that we'll be using it a lot (at least
paurea is doing so, and I think I'm going the same way).

On files, I *never* used 3-1. Well, I used it once when I first tried
acme, just to play with undoing buttons. I don't know for sure, but I
think paurea never used it either.

Most times, I notice that I used 3 to open a wrong file (eg /dev/zero and
alike) after I released the button (which makes 3-1 no longer useful as
a cancel).

On the other hand, we had 2 on directories instead of 3-1 some time ago.
It was confusing because some directories correspond to program names in
/bin. That's why we decided to move to 3-1 instead of keep on using 2.

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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hack for acme
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:52:21 -0500
Message-ID: <d2708caf4df164a10d01adbc3aa1cf1f@plan9.bell-labs.com>

We did not include the 3-1 change in our acme, mainly because 3-1
cancels a 3 that you've started and want to back out.  In other
words, as Rob pointed out before, 3-1 is already taken.

It might be reasonable to use 2 to ``exec'' a directory by opening it
in the same window, but then there is the inconsistency that 2 on a
directory and 2 on a file behave differently.  

I think that if I had the ability to open a directory in the same window,
I might use it a fair amount.  I'm not sure how much I would use the
open a file in the same window capability.  I'm still thinking about 2.
But 3-1 won't happen.

Paurea and Nemo, how much do you use your 3-1 on files vs. directories?

Russ