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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:52:04 +0000
From: Brian Vito <brian.vito@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Show/edit acme snarf buffer
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On Jun 25, 5:24=A0am, 9f...@hamnavoe.com (Richard Miller) wrote:
> > Using either/both acme under Plan 9 and/or Mac OS X via plan9port, is
> > there a "file" that can be opened in acme that displays the current
> > contents of the acme snarf buffer?
>
> /dev/snarf
>
> > If so, is there a way to have that
> > window automatically update when the snarf buffer changes?
>
> Not quite automatically. You can write a program which polls /dev/snarf
> using fstat(2); qid.vers will be updated when the file is written to.
>
> > would
> > it be possible that by editing the snarf buffer window to edit the
> > contents of the snarf buffer itself
>
> Just as with any acme window, the underlying file will only change
> when you click Put. =A0Again if you're willing to do some programming,
> you could monitor changes in the window using the acme event file
> and do the Put automatically.

Thank you -- these are useful suggestions. Is there an equivalent to /
dev/snarf when using plan9port under Mac OS X?

[bv]