From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190606072309r25d6ceeapa5c8067283f03c53@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:09:20 +1000 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 In-Reply-To: <1aba9f7b0606072243i66d83ca0v259541175e9491c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44879B05.6050706@lanl.gov> <44879EC5.3050105@lanl.gov> <1149744360.10189.22.camel@heater.intranet.ebr> <1aba9f7b0606072243i66d83ca0v259541175e9491c@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 605a2e92-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Dont knock the paper clip - excellent way to get stuck media out of a Mac. If you want gcc then port it ... it won't change my world. Run whatever you like. Have fun, dhog didn't. brucee On 6/8/06, Simon Williams wrote: > Dont knock the paper clip - just the implementation > The people who designed it ( at Microsoft Research ) are seriously excellent > Bayesan statisticians who names i have forgotten ( apologies ). The problem > for the marketroids was that it didnt appear often enough for them to sell > it as a feature so they took all the careful tuned parameters and wound them > up to 11 creating the monster we have today. > Simon > > > On 6/8/06, ems wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 21:51 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > What if you had a window manager that could be recursive? that would set > > > it up so you can name windows by a path name? that would let you treat > > > the recursive desktops -- to any level -- as just another window? that > > > would trivially allow you to connect mouse clicks in a window to control > > > actions for one or more other windows (i.e. you could logically group > > > windows and then control all of them via mouse clicks)? That would maybe > > > let you easily connect output from a process in one window to another? > > > that would let you build little widgets that could easily control other > > > windows? That would let you display all window state in another window? > > > That would let you set, say, all windows with a browser with the label > > > abaco-### (### a number), with a simple text command; and let you find > > > all windows with the label abaco.* with, in the limit, a grep? That > > > would make it easy to group all windows with the label 'abaco.*' so that > > > you could say 'hide all abaco' with a simple script? > > > > ________________________ > > | It looks like you're | > > | playing with rio. | > > | | > > | Would you like help? | > > | | > > | * Get help with | > > | hiding windows | > > | | > > | * Just hide the | > > | windows without | > > | help | > > | _ | > > ||_| Don't show me | > > | this tip again | > > |______ ______________| > > \ | > > \| > > Glenda > > > > Sorry, I couldn't help myself. (BTW, is there ACSII Glenda anywhere?) > > > >