Re: [9fans] 9pm customization

[Victor Nazarov <vir@comtv.ru>]

Jack Johnson wrote:

>On my work workstation I have bzip2 in the path, so I copied that
>over.  Thought some more, and Inferno ships with awk, so that's there
>now, too.  Both of these spit out carriage returns at the end of the
>line, but they're functional and keep my fingers doing what they
>should.  I pack around Inferno on the same USB key, but usually I want
>to monkey with files on the host in some semi-sane fashion and it's
>faster to just fire up 9pm than to jump through the hoops in Inferno.
>
>It occurred to me that it would be handy to either recompile awk and
>bzip2 to not generate the carriage return, or maybe to handle it some
>other way in 9pm so all of the local Windows utilities wouldn't be
>such a pain.
>
>
I'd like plan9-ish awk (only utf8, no carriage return). And I'd like to
have 9term friendly telnet. Windows default telnet doesn't work in 9term
window :(.

>Getting to the point, for those of you who still use 9pm, what have
>you added to your path to make it more livable?  Have you found that
>any of the utilities that ship with Inferno are more up to date?
>
>-Jack
>
>
>
I've added mingw to the path. Everything else is cool.
--
Victor