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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme tag scrolling/expansion
Date: Fri,  7 Oct 2005 21:43:11 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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And one more associated question: with longer tags, does it make  
sense to augment the dump format to save/restore tags with carriage  
returns?

Paul

On 7-Oct-05, at 8:34 PM, Paul Lalonde wrote:

> I have a working hack to acme that now lets me use the scroll wheel  
> to expand the tag to multiple lines and collapse it again.  It  
> seems to have no nasty interactions with the feature set I use.   
> Moving a window into a slot shorter than the tag shortens the tag  
> to fit.  One line of the body tries to always show, except when  
> windows are collapsed.  Dragging the tag text continues to work.
>
> Does anyone else want it?  How do I submit the patch?  It's  
> substantially smaller than I expected.
>
> Should I also allow carriage returns in the tag text now?
>
> One thing that it has caused me to observe in more detail is the  
> layout bug where occasionally a window moved into a tight space  
> wastes nearly a line of space and doesn't show the separator bar  
> between it and the (unshown) body.  I'll pick at it this evening.
>
> Paul
>
>