Re: [9fans] managing windows in rio

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

> I have had similar questions about ways to streamline my Plan 9 experience
> since like... a week ago (that is when I began using it).
>
> Plan 9 interfaces I have seen (rio itself, the window to rc, acme) are too
> mousy, and I used to (and still do) curse Windows (and adore *BSD) for
> just that reason. The line editor, ed, on the other hand makes good use of
> the keyboard, but I really preferred the vi (vim, actually) way; I know,
> vi was originally built around ed.
>
we live in the 21th century

> Here are (some of) my questions:
>
> Is there some way (other than messing with the code)...
>

> 1. to change the focus except by mouse?
> 2. to change acme's chording behavior?
> 3. to change acme's focus model from point-to-type to click-to-type?

1, 2, 3: change the code

> 4. to recall commands typed in an rc session without resorting to the
> middle mouse button (snarf+paste)?

russ has to useful scripts " and "" one prints the last comand the other
executes it. what they do is grepping /dev/text

> 5. to make rc auto-scroll for programs that output many pages of text, e.
> g. a du on a deep directory tree, and to not block them after a single
> page?

middle click, "scroll"

> 6. to make rc auto-complete with the [tab] key, instead of the [ins] key?

why would you want that, get use to the system, this is a new world
don't go to Laos and expect everyone speak english.

> 7. to make rc auto-complete commands and not only file/directory names?

different OS & paradigm == different behavior

> 8. to make the [del] key delete the character at the caret as it does in
> many other environments?

<del> in rio interrupts the program being run

> 9. to search a manual page while reading it, and not by piping it through
> grep?
>

read man pages in acme and just use Look or right click in the word you
want to search

> Are there...
>
> 1. any (configurable or otherwise) keyboard shortcuts in acme/rio?

no

> 2. alternatives to mouse navigation and, particularly, text selection in
> acme?

no

> 3. ways to quit acid without deleting its window or hitting [ctrl]+[d]
> twice, which ends up deleting the window and all the scrollback buffer
> with it (I could not find a quit() function in the manual page)?
>
read its man page

> Notes on the Plan 9 way of interfacing (the user side of it, of course)
> are also welcome. Perhaps there are better/faster ways to do things that I
> am not aware of.


use the system, it's not supposed to feel like "home", it's a
different environment,
hence it has a different behavior. so try to be a bit open minded here

--
Federico G. Benavento