Re[2]: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help

Re[2]: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help

[steve.simon]

Any pointers, references, FTP site for "rk" ?

-Steve


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Subject:    Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
Author: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date:       20/01/02 22:02

| yes, well, you see plan9 is more mouse driven. eventually you'll
| probably end up with Acme as much your "shell" as anything, and you'll
| find auto complete is unneccessary.

I think that input prediction, if done well, is a beautiful feature, and
one that would fit very well with acme, or maybe as a kind of plumbing. I
used to use a unix thing called "rk"; a markov chain style thing that
continuously prompted you with a line or two of predicted input. You
used the arrow keys or tab or ctrl-m to accept the next char/word/line
of the prediction. It was uncannily good. A lot of command line stuff is
very repetative, and anyone who's seen Rob's fake usenet postings can
see how good this kind of thing is for email. One of these days I'll
get around to hacking it into acme, maybe.

| > - Unless is it part of a grander plan (no pun intended), can we move
| > the process interrupt key from Del to something else and have the
| > conventional functionality of del back ?

Especially since PC keyboards have an actual "break" key to use.




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Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help

[Boyd Roberts]

steve.simon@snellwilcox.com wrote:
> I think that input prediction, if done well, is a beautiful feature, and
> one that would fit very well with acme, or maybe as a kind of plumbing. I
> used to use a unix thing called "rk"; a markov chain style thing that
> continuously prompted you with a line or two of predicted input. You
> used the arrow keys or tab or ctrl-m to accept the next char/word/line
> of the prediction. It was uncannily good.

In Japan they have a similar style of thing for typing Kanji.  The
pronounciation stem is typed (in kana) and you flip through a list of
choices.  If it's smart it should remember the kanji-frequencies on
a per-user basis.  I never knew if the ones I saw ever did.

Re: Re[2]: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help

[Scott Schwartz]

> Any pointers, references, FTP site for "rk" ?

The author wrote a book.  Google can probably find archives
of the software.  A version of it hacked up for tcl is at
http://www.cse.psu.edu/~schwartz/rktcl.tar.gz

RE: Re[2]: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help

[Jason Gurtz]

> > Any pointers, references, FTP site for "rk" ?

To save you 20 min of searching I found it @
ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/projects/the.reactive.keyboard/

haven't tested it yet

~Jason

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Re: Re[2]: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help

[Scott Schwartz]

| To save you 20 min of searching I found it @
| ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/projects/the.reactive.keyboard/

Ages ago I chopped out all the extraneous stuff (as I recall, there was
a lot of cruft in there) and built some tcl bindings:
	http://www.cse.psu.edu/~schwartz/rktcl.tar.gz

RE: Re[2]: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help

[Jason Gurtz]

> > To save you 20 min of searching I found it @
> > ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/projects/the.reactive.keyboard/
>
> Ages ago I chopped out all the extraneous stuff (as I recall,
> there was a lot of cruft in there) and built some tcl bindings:
> 	http://www.cse.psu.edu/~schwartz/rktcl.tar.gz

Wow, we do a little mail server work, causing some ages old mail to go
out of the queue and look at the present I receive!

Thanks,

~Jason

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