Re: [9fans] Searching for text outside Acme

["Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>]

Using acme for doing everything (to honor its name) works just fine.
After you read a man page, all the refs in there are ready for button-3.

I found acme incovenient time ago when I was using it like I used other
editors in unix. As soon as I started to use acme for everything, my feeling
changed. But in any case, feelings about editors are a religion,
aren´t they? :-)

On 8/19/06, yard-ape@telus.net <yard-ape@telus.net> wrote:
> "Micah Stetson" <micah@stetsonnet.org> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried 'grep foo /dev/text', or is that not what you wanted?
> > people talk about adding look to the button-2 menu every once in a
> > while...
>
> Well, if Mr. Pike says "Look" would crowd button 2, then I drop it.  But how does one jump to a string in a man page without visually scanning it from top to bottom (for example)?  Plumbing the text 'man(1)' to sam works alright; but I thought there might be a way to leverage the text window's noscroll behaviour a little more.
>
> -Derek
>
>