Re: [9fans] Acme tag scrolling/expansion

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

Crap - Sorry about the tarball - I have to learn to read the  
generated To line on reply vs reply-to-all, which in both cases  
defaults to the list, not the sender.

Paul

On 8-Oct-05, at 6:44 AM, Paul Lalonde wrote:

> Uriel - regarding the patch, can you help me?
> I've attached my tarball, it should just build.
> Or, I could use a walk-through of using 9p from p9p to drop the  
> file into contrib somewhere handy.
> Thanks,
>     Paul
>
> <paul_acme.tgz>
>
> On 8-Oct-05, at 6:33 AM, Uriel wrote:
>
>
>> On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 06:19:38AM -0700, Paul Lalonde wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ah - I forgot to mention; ever since my shuttle turned into an
>>> unresponsive pile of silicon, I've been working in plan9port  
>>> under OS
>>> X; patch doesn't exist there :-(
>>>
>>>
>> Oh, well, that still should let you upload stuff to a sources/contrib
>> dir using 9p(1) or the python 9p client. Or you can drawterm to a  
>> 9grid
>> node.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I used to think that too; but I found myself using the longer tag to
>>> hide less-frequent commands, especially with my debugger.  I know I
>>> can use "Send" to bridge from a guide file, but then I can't also
>>> chord in a parameter.  So, debugging with GDB in particular, I need
>>> break, display, print,  and so on, in my tag if I want to chord
>>> parameters.  Now I keep them tucked on the second line, and find
>>> myself opening my tag, chording the command, and closing it up, all
>>> in one "gesture".  Incidentally - you can already cut and paste
>>> newlines into the tag.
>>>
>>>
>> I agree, but still I'm unsure \n should be accepted in the tag just
>> making the text flow into the following line when it doesn't fit  
>> in the
>> current one should be enough... but I can't think of any strong  
>> reason
>> to avoid \n except simplicity as things like dump assume a single  
>> line.
>>
>> It would be nice if there was a way to see that there are more lines
>> than what is visible... not sure how that can be done without an  
>> extra
>> scroll bar, but that I think would be a bad idea.
>>
>> But I should try the patch before commenting so much :)
>>
>> uriel
>>
>>
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