Re: [9fans] Acme: spaces in file names

[Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de>]

To use the plumber, you have to start it first. Then you can configure
all the Button-3 behavior you want. No need to change the hard coded
backup behavior.

Am 15.12.2013 17:19, schrieb Blake McBride:
> Blake-Mac-17:tmp blake$ 9p read plumb/rules
> 9p: mount: dial unix!/tmp/ns.blake._tmp_launch-nvfpC3_org.x:0/plumb:
> connect /tmp/ns.blake._tmp_launch-nvfpC3_org.x:0/plumb: No such file 
> 
> I don't have to do this when I search for text with spaces, or to
> execute a command with spaces.  Not being able to load files or
> directories with spaces is, and I mean this in the most respectfull way,
> short sighted and inconsistent IMO.  As long as a fix doesn't limit some
> existing functionality, I think it should be corrected.  I am qualified
> to make such a correction but, not being familiar with the code, I
> estimate it would take me a whole day to do.  I'd bet it would take
> someone famaliar with the code an hour.  My time, like all of yours, is
> very limited.  I will make the change when my time permits.  My hope is
> that someone more familiar with the code can make it before then.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Blake
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de
> <mailto:f.psiorz@gmx.de>> wrote:
> 
>     I think the reason is that filenames with spaces are not very common in
>     Plan 9.
>     If you're running plumber, you can probably adjust the regular
>     exressions for file matching in your $HOME/lib/plumbing file.
> 
>     If you don't have that file yet:
>     9p read plumb/rules >$HOME/lib/plumbing
> 
>     ~Fritz
> 
>     Am 15.12.2013 16:25, schrieb Blake McBride:
>     > Discovering button-3-drag, is there a reason button-3-drag could
>     not be
>     > made to load a file or directory with spaces in it?  In other words,
>     > would this conflict with some other intended operation?
>     >
>     > Thanks.
>     >
>     > Blake
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name
>     <mailto:blake@mcbride.name>
>     > <mailto:blake@mcbride.name <mailto:blake@mcbride.name>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     When you button-2-click on text acme executes the word.  If
>     you want
>     >     to execute something larger with spaces, you highlight the whole
>     >     thing and then button-2-click on it to execute the whole thing.
>     >
>     >     When you button-3-click on text in a file list buffer acme
>     loads the
>     >     file with that name.  I should be able to highlight a file
>     name with
>     >     spaces and then button-3-click on it to load the file.  This would
>     >     be totally consistent.
>     >
>     >     It there a reason this hasn't been done?
>     >
>     >     Thanks.
>     >
>     >     Blake
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Rubén Berenguel
>     >     <ruben@mostlymaths.net <mailto:ruben@mostlymaths.net>
>     <mailto:ruben@mostlymaths.net <mailto:ruben@mostlymaths.net>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >         A kind of crude workaround is using the whole
>     >         /Users/whatever/file with spaces, selecting it with first
>     button
>     >         and 1-2 chording it to Get. This works on Mac, problem is that
>     >         it's quite horrible to do. An intermediate solution may be to
>     >         use some piping rule like sp:filename with spaces, but I don't
>     >         remember if piping works with right-button and selected
>     text or
>     >         follows the same rules as opening a file.
>     >
>     >         Ruben
>     >
>     >
>     >         On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Robert Raschke
>     >         <rtrlists@googlemail.com <mailto:rtrlists@googlemail.com>
>     <mailto:rtrlists@googlemail.com <mailto:rtrlists@googlemail.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >             Someone once made a little filesystem that would
>     substitute
>     >             spaces in filenames with a different character. When
>     placed
>     >             between the normal fs and Acme, this would make things
>     work
>     >             quite nicely.
>     >
>     >             If I remember correctly, Acme-SAC (built on top of
>     Inferno)
>     >             does that by default.
>     >
>     >             No idea where you can find such a fs for Mac though. But
>     >             this might give you a start.
>     >
>     >             Robby
>     >
>     >             On Dec 11, 2013 6:19 PM, "Blake McBride"
>     <blake@mcbride.name <mailto:blake@mcbride.name>
>     >             <mailto:blake@mcbride.name
>     <mailto:blake@mcbride.name>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >                 Greetings,
>     >
>     >                 Just started using acme (and sam).  Cool.
>     >
>     >                 I am using acme on a Mac form plan9port.
>     >
>     >                 Within a file list one can right-click a listing in
>     >                 order to decend into another directory or load a file.
>     >                  The problem is that neither work if a space is
>     >                 contained within the name.  Apparently, the
>     right-click
>     >                 functionality only looks at non-white space
>     strings.  An
>     >                 easy fix to this would be to allow the user to
>     highlight
>     >                 the entire string (including spaces) and then
>     >                 right-click as normal.  The system would allow the
>     >                 highlight facility to override the "just test for
>     >                 contigous non-space string" current functionality.
>     >
>     >                 Any thoughts on this?
>     >
>     >                 Thanks.
>     >
>     >                 Blake McBride
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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