Re: [9fans] Acme scrolling tags (was Re: graphics scaling)

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

That differs from my experience - I usually run 3 columns on a 30"
monitor, with tags open to two lines for most of my active windows;
the second line typically has an Edit command lying around because you
can't effectively 2-1 chord Edits.  The extra length is also useful
for dealing with the obscenely deep tree our development happens in
(Really, it was easier to fix the editor than to get the rest of the
team to move to a saner tree structure, aggravated by cross-platform/
cross-compile/cross-toolchain requirements that cause a 3 way cross
product of both build and some sources.  If only the world had been
sold on Plan9 in 1993).

I use a mouse with a big click-able scroll wheel (yes, the cheap Dell
ones) that lets me do my button 2 clicks well enough, but also let me
scoll through my windows and tags - I find tag collapse and expansion
really nice with the scroll wheel.

Paul

On 22-Dec-08, at 11:42 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:

>
> On Mon Dec 22 13:57:35 EST 2008, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
>>> not ported.  i'm glad that that hasn't been ported back.
>>> i find multi-line tags annoying 10 times for each time they
>>> are useful.
>>
>> is this an abstract assertion or have you actually tried them?
>>
>> russ
>
> i've used them for quite some time with p9p.  i liked them at
> first, but it didn't wear as well as i thought it would for me.
> tags can be close to the length of the line and cause a second
> line to appear and disappear.  i find that annoying and it
> happens more often than i need a long tag.  esc esc then
> jolts things back the way they were.
>
> - erik
>