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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme SAC for OS X Version 0.24
Date: Mon,  5 Nov 2007 17:33:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5365ACDC-C7F6-434A-A24C-C1DABAF76A2C@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0711051423l3ee9f9bamae4242220134f352@mail.gmail.com>

For some reason, then, Look is ignoring its argument on both OS X and  
Plan 9. Acme SAC works right on OS X using your directions.

On Nov 5, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Russ Cox wrote:

> Here's a bunch of things to try to get started.
> If you have problems, say which ones worked for you
> and which didn't.
>
> Type date somewhere and middle-click on it.
> A new +Errors window should pop up with the
> current date.
>
> Middle-click on date again.  The date should
> appear a second time in the +Errors window.
>
> Now type "echo hello world" somewhere (without the quotes).
> Highlight it using the left button and middle click
> on the highlighted text.  "hello world" should appear
> in the +Errors window.
>
> Left-click on the echo hello world so that the highlight
> goes away.  Then highlight "echo hello world" using
> the middle button.  A second "hello world" should
> appear in the +Errors window.
>
> In the +Errors window, right click on one of the "hello"s.
> The mouse pointer should jump to the other hello,
> which should be highlighted.
>
> Leave one of the "hello" highlighted in the body
> and middle click the world "Look" in the tag (the blue line).
> Each time you middle click "Look" the highlight should
> jump to the other hello, just like it was when right clicking
> directly on hello.  But the pointer will not move.
>
> In the tag of the +Errors window (the blue line above it),
> the word Look is at the end of the tag.  Put the cursor
> after the Look and type "hello", so that the tag end reads
> "Look hello".  Highlight "Look hello" using the left
> button and then middle-click the highlighted "Look hello".
> Each time you middle-click the highlighted "Look hello",
> the highlight in the body of the window should move to
> the other "hello".
>
> Left-click in the tag so that the highlight on "Look hello"
> goes away.  Now use the middle button to highlight "Look hello".
> The other "hello" in the body should be highlighted and the
> mouse pointer should jump to the now-highlighted text.
>
> Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-05 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-05 16:55 underspecified
2007-11-05 19:50 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-05 20:52 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-05 21:10   ` Russ Cox
2007-11-05 21:17     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-05 21:26       ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-05 21:32         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-05 21:44           ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-05 21:55           ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-05 21:43       ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-05 21:47         ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-05 21:54           ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-05 22:00             ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-05 22:05               ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-05 22:23                 ` Russ Cox
2007-11-05 22:33                   ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2007-11-05 22:36                   ` cummij
2007-11-05 22:50                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-05 23:30                       ` Axel Belinfante
2007-11-05 23:45                         ` Russ Cox
2007-11-06  4:13                         ` Arvindh Rajesh Tamilmani
2007-11-05 23:48                     ` Russ Cox
2007-11-06  1:05                       ` Caerwyn Jones
2007-11-06  9:33                         ` roger peppe
2007-11-06  9:24                   ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-06  9:44                     ` underspecified

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