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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] carriage returns in 9term and acme
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:08:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4840a30d3884322fa142b5eaca1a4d67@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADaPGMQYbpSQR9aW76bpT495=5M6F-afhbn4yk2EyjAJrGMGfg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue Sep 11 23:59:33 EDT 2012, chris@altbit.org wrote:
> Do I need a specific font to render carriage returns properly?  This
> is from acme on p9p:  http://cl.ly/image/0H0n2F1s1e0e
> 
> The same behavior is visible in 9term as well.  I have the issue both
> on p9p and vanilla plan9.

could you define "properly".  that looks right to me.

unix/plan 9 don't use nl+cr.  the carrage return harkens
back to the days when the console had an actual typewriter
carrage which needed to be sent back to the left.  in the
very old days, even before consoles with printer heads,
there was a manual return lever and a linefeed key.  since
the early 1960s  (half a century!) return, has, uh, been return.
☺

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12  4:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-12  3:57 Christopher Hobbs
2012-09-12  4:06 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-09-12  4:48   ` Bruce Ellis
2012-09-12 14:30     ` Matthew Veety
2012-09-12 23:39       ` Bruce Ellis
2012-09-13  0:02       ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-13  0:07         ` Bruce Ellis
2012-09-13  0:12           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-09-13  0:15             ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-13  0:22               ` Bruce Ellis
     [not found]               ` <CAJQxxw=BPuX4kBr3_t2g7Pn9zMU3bw24W4T3jbr4=BMJ=bEm5g@mail.gmail.c>
2012-09-13  0:32                 ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-13 10:13               ` Steve Simon
2012-09-13 13:49                 ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-12  4:08 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-09-17 12:44 ` michaelian ennis

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