From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <52ADD84F.3070200@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:26:55 +0100 From: Friedrich Psiorz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <52ADCCE9.7000507@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme: spaces in file names Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b336c70-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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=20 >=20 > 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 som= e > 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. >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > Blake >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Friedrich Psiorz > wrote: >=20 > I think the reason is that filenames with spaces are not very commo= n in > Plan 9. > If you're running plumber, you can probably adjust the regular > exressions for file matching in your $HOME/lib/plumbing file. >=20 > If you don't have that file yet: > 9p read plumb/rules >$HOME/lib/plumbing >=20 > ~Fritz >=20 > 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 wor= ds, > > would this conflict with some other intended operation? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Blake > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Blake McBride > > >> wrote: > > > > When you button-2-click on text acme executes the word. If > you want > > to execute something larger with spaces, you highlight the wh= ole > > thing and then button-2-click on it to execute the whole thin= g. > > > > 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, Rub=E9n Berenguel > > > >> wrot= e: > > > > 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 b= e 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 > > > >> > 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 thing= s > 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" > > > >> 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 th= e > > highlight facility to override the "just test for > > contigous non-space string" current functionality= . > > > > Any thoughts on this? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Blake McBride > > > > > > > > >=20 >=20 >=20