From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:36:03 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <396284eb18c16a071ce649b5e2370e4a@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <6C4DE0B7-6B44-4ABD-83A4-44E72A300DC0@gmail.com> <83109255370bf46152ae8d1bb04a463f@chula.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] acme multi-line tags (or maybe, efficient message stores) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 35e38d74-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Oct 10 00:08:51 EDT 2011, paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com wrote: > I often keep an Edit I'm refining in a separate tag line for easy selection. > But the real use was in keeping commands that need chorded parameters, so my > debugger sessions, for example, keep a line of "list print break" etc, so I > can chord in the parameter easily. That way I don't have to construct the > breakpoint instruction in a scratch window, and I can keep enough of them > around to be useful - one tag line isn't big enough. i'd rather have a window like win that would operate on the same principle as the sam edit window. unless i've misread the man page, i don't think this is possible with the current command interface*. you'd have to insert the text into the tag and then execute it. it'd be the opposite of screen scraping. :-) - erik *i want to send "Edit X ,s:frobnatz:blatz:g." or "Edit b somefile", how do i do that?