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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme search backwards
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 2015 06:11:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85e18fdc09a479c86f5955be0cb604be@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOEdRO29hwNinDyRbiLhScp6YFdHOKetdbHatFtT0gT1SERmeA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu Sep  3 02:40:05 PDT 2015, rudolf.sykora@gmail.com wrote:
> On 3 September 2015 at 11:16, Mathieu Lonjaret
> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.plan9/Q6R9iuu0lE8/u3h-FUnXOmEJ
>
> Thanks for the link!
> I wonder, why is it that they claim that implementing the functionality
> of:
> 3b = search forward, shift+3b = search backward
> is not feasible on plan9...

because the keyboard doesn't pass modal presses to user space, and devmouse
already takes shift+right -> middle, for insufficient mice.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-03 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-02  6:08 Rudolf Sykora
2015-09-02 13:14 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2015-09-02 14:01   ` lucio
2015-09-02 14:37     ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-09-02 15:01       ` Rudolf Sykora
2015-09-02 15:27         ` lucio
2015-09-03  9:16     ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2015-09-03  9:38       ` Rudolf Sykora
2015-09-03 13:11         ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2015-09-03 13:34           ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-09-03 14:14             ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-03 14:27               ` Stanley Lieber
2015-09-03 14:30               ` Kurt H Maier
2015-09-03 14:42               ` Rudolf Sykora

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