Re: [9fans] managing windows in rio

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

benavento@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> 5. to make rc auto-scroll for programs that output many pages of text, e.
>> g. a du on a deep directory tree, and to not block them after a single
>> page?
>
> middle click, "scroll"

Or, if you really want, start rio with the -s option; you can modify your
lib/profile to do that.

>
>> 6. to make rc auto-complete with the [tab] key, instead of the [ins] key?
>
> why would you want that, get use to the system, this is a new world
> don't go to Laos and expect everyone speak english.

All "please god must every newbie ask these same questions" hostility aside,
when you consider that Plan 9 rebinds Caps Lock to be Control, typing
^F for completion is actually pretty handy.

>> Are there...
>>
>> 1. any (configurable or otherwise) keyboard shortcuts in acme/rio?
>
> no

Actually, it has ^A and ^E to go to the start and the end of the current
line, respectively. The reason for 'smacme' is that Ron got annoyed without
keyboard shortcuts, saw that there were already the (undocumented?) ^E and
^A commands, and went ahead and added some more bits.


>> 3. ways to quit acid without deleting its window or hitting [ctrl]+[d]
>> twice, which ends up deleting the window and all the scrollback buffer
>> with it (I could not find a quit() function in the manual page)?
>>
> read its man page
>

Yes, the man page is always a good idea. Also... you only have to hit ^D
once. If you've been running a program within acme, it will then print
out a command you can send to rc to kill that program.


John