From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32790.67.85.61.176.1086252046.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 03:40:46 -0500 Subject: Re: [9fans] acme design From: vdharani@infernopark.com To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 90f05454-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Hi, maybe one picture is worth thousand words ;-) > my idea was sthg like this: > > http://www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/newacmedesign.jpg > - how will one know what is the filename (pathname) for each window? - in acme, just by looking into the tag line, i know i can run 'grep XXXX= X *.c' on a particular window. how can i do it with this? - the (new) windows on the right are the ones used for tags and commands. now, how much space would they occupy? what happens when the pathnames an= d commands are longer than the ones in the sample image? - you have safely assumed there will be only one column (of windows). wha= t happens when you have to have 2 or even 3 columns? even in 1024x768, one could manage with 2 columns. with your idea, wont it waste space? thanks dharani