From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c0620511032126n6620c674j908e3a9f397a5e76@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:26:58 -0800 From: Jack Johnson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] tab completion and command history in rc In-Reply-To: <436AF189.2080909@lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <436AF189.2080909@lanl.gov> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a519c48a-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 11/3/05, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > I don't think that rc and the rio interface and all that are the be-all > and end-all of interfaces. Neither are X11, Emacs, and bash. It's all a > work in progress, all the time. There are features from each I miss on > the other. I've been using a Mac for about six months now, and found that I've accidentally become an Expos=E9 addict. Just today I was at work with way too many windows open, trying to work on one project while my boss was instant messaging me about some other project, and I flung my cursor into the upper-right corner, waited three seconds and started muttering, "What the HELL?!?" before I realized that Windows was not going to comply with my gesture. Keeping mouse buttons straight between X, PuTTY, rio, acme, CMD, etc., context sensitivities among command/control key options in Aqua, GNOME and Windows, and command-line parameters between Plan 9, GNU and MS is enough to drive a person crazy. I may have chortled a bit too gleefully at Takeshi's button-3 mishap, laughing not just at him but with him. I think I have the most respect for Russ, apparently navigating X, Qt/GTK+, acme and rio apps simultaneously on a regular basis. But perhaps he's still young enough that the hair grows back. :) -Jack