From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme design
Date: Thu,  3 Jun 2004 14:48:47 +0100
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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i been thinking that one way to make the filenames less obtrusive in
acme would be to allow grouping of windows with a common path prefix.

i quite often find myself working in, say
/n/dump/2004/0529/usr/inferno/appl/cmd/scheduler/...  and that really
doesn't give much space for tag commands.

i could imagine some kind of directory-tagged super-window in acme
that contained other windows.  windows inside it whose names were
prefixed by their super-window's tag would show only a pathname
relative to that directory.  dragging a window outside would show the
whole pathname again.

looking at the acme window i'm writing this email in, this would save
much space, and provide a reasonable way of organising windows too (i
quite often find myself doing a Sort, or typing a full pathname and
right-clicking on it, just to find a particular window).

at least with something like this it would be possible to look at an
acme window and work out where all the files are, something that's not
possible with the env var hack, for instance.