From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] invisible prompt in win
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:52:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3412dba204516dfaf8f48232113c17b7@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081004195823.GA990@shodan.homeunix.net>
> To me it looks more like a consequence of Plan 9's treatment of files as
> sequences of bytes/chars/runes rather then sequences of lines as is common
> in Unix. Basically, you can't scroll beyond the end of the file, and if the
unix and plan 9 agree: a file is an ordered sequence of bytes. unix
read/write/seek are measured in the same units as plan 9
pread/pwrite/seek: bytes.
but i think you may be talking about vi. but even here,
the problem only happens on the first line. i think it's just
a garden variety bug. no philosophy need apply.
> Rio and sam show the same behaviour, by the way.
indicating exactly where to look. (libframe.)
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-05 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 17:50 erik quanstrom
2008-10-04 19:58 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-10-05 13:52 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-10-05 15:07 ` Pietro Gagliardi
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2008-10-05 15:22 erik quanstrom
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2008-10-03 13:53 ` Robert Raschke
2008-10-03 13:28 erik quanstrom
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2008-10-03 13:11 ` Robert Raschke
2008-10-03 12:19 erik quanstrom
2008-10-03 6:14 Michael Brown
2008-10-03 8:27 ` Robert Raschke
2008-10-18 17:18 ` Russ Cox
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