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Subject: Re: [9fans] tab completion and command history in rc
Date: Fri,  4 Nov 2005 10:50:51 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> So, Rian, if there's stuff you find you miss on Plan 9, it may be you 
> have not learned a "Plan 9" way to do things, or it may be that Plan 9 
> environment is lacking in some way. I think many of us take a guilty 
> pleasure in ^F. I know I do. What else might we like from the unix world 
> that we don't talk about? It would be interesting to see.

A list on the wiki would not go amiss.  No harm in a bit of
objectivity and soul searching.

In passing, it's great news that VESA and a new VM are about to
happen, shows that in important places Plan 9 is still significant
enough to assign valuable resources to.

But, as Ron points out, Plan 9 has its own "True Way (TM)" that
occasionally puts a huge spanner in the works.

One of my gripes is the PC keyboard.  I haven't a clue what
contorsions the kernel goes through to provide the final product, but
the end result is not what I would ask for.  For example, the <Scroll
Lock><Scroll Lock> tap is used to switch the "console" on a two-way
switch I'm using: that generates two Peter faces in Plan 9.  Wrong?
Maybe not, but it's too different to be declared exemplary.

And for all that using the mouse is demonstrated to be faster, as long
as mouse _and_ keyboard are both in use, I think pulling one's hands
off the keyboard to re-position the cursor is a silly necessity (as
demonstrated by the introduction of cursor-right and cursor-left
keys).

Now let me go look at hiding that fat arrow out of the way while I
type with both hands.

++L