[9fans] Trouble finding current window directory in acme

[9fans] Trouble finding current window directory in acme

[Chris McGee]

Hi All,

I’m in the process of writing an interactive tutorial for plan9/acme. I’m hoping to demonstrate how to execute a command on a text file that uses the current selection as input.

According to the acme manual page there should be a /dev/acme/acme (or /mnt/acme/acme) directory that represents the current window within acme. There should be the usual body, ctl, addr, etc. files. On a regular document window I’m finding that the directory is empty. However, when I run an interactive “win” window the files are there for that window.

How does one get the /dev/acme/acme directory to be present in a normal document window? Alternatively, is there a simple way to find the index of the current acme window so that I can use the /dev/acme/x directory?

Thanks,
Chris

Re: [9fans] Trouble finding current window directory in acme

[Antons Suspans]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:41:21PM -0500, Chris McGee wrote:
> How does one get the /dev/acme/acme directory to be present in a normal document window? Alternatively, is there a simple way to find the index of the current acme window so that I can use the /dev/acme/x directory?

Use /mnt/acme/$winid for that purpose. It's described in acme(1).

Hope this helps,
Antons

Re: [9fans] Trouble finding current window directory in acme

[Chris McGee]

Thanks, that will work.

Chris

> On Nov 26, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Antons Suspans <antox@ml.lv> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:41:21PM -0500, Chris McGee wrote:
>> How does one get the /dev/acme/acme directory to be present in a normal document window? Alternatively, is there a simple way to find the index of the current acme window so that I can use the /dev/acme/x directory?
> 
> Use /mnt/acme/$winid for that purpose. It's described in acme(1).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Antons
>