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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:24:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Show/edit acme snarf buffer
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> Using either/both acme under Plan 9 and/or Mac OS X via plan9port, is
> there a "file" that can be opened in acme that displays the current
> contents of the acme snarf buffer?

/dev/snarf

> If so, is there a way to have that
> window automatically update when the snarf buffer changes?

Not quite automatically. You can write a program which polls /dev/snarf
using fstat(2); qid.vers will be updated when the file is written to.

> would
> it be possible that by editing the snarf buffer window to edit the
> contents of the snarf buffer itself

Just as with any acme window, the underlying file will only change
when you click Put.  Again if you're willing to do some programming,
you could monitor changes in the window using the acme event file
and do the Put automatically.