Re: [9fans] searching in rio terminal windows

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> i suggested this to rob in 1992-1993 when 9term came out but
> he said it would make the button 2 menu too long.  i added it
> to 9term anyway and it was very useful; looking for 'close'
> strings in log files was one use.

what i tend to do in these circumstances is select all the text
in the rio window, click New in acme and paste it in there.

(that brings me to the thing i find most annoying in rio - i'll
drag down to the end of the window, chord cut and paste to
snarf it all... and it executes the entire snarf buffer!
(potentially really nasty, but mitigated by dumpfs...)
i started to have a look at fixing this once, but got bogged
down and haven't mustered the energy again.)

acme Edit in temporary windows for playing with log files
is a wonderful thing.

(actually, it's great in other ways too. for example, i tend to keep a large mailbox,
and in a /mail/fs/mbox/ window, i can do:
Edit ,x/^[0-9].*\n(	.*\n)*/g/\[9fans]/d
to restrict my view to non-9fans messages only.)

acme temporary, unlabeled, windows are great. it's a pity
they're not archived when acme is Dumped.

to add to the mouse button thing: if i had an extra mouse button,
i think i'd use it as a "search backwards" button in acme.