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From: steve.simon@snellwilcox.com
Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:01:03 +0000
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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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