Re: [9fans] Two Acme questions

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> First, after using plan9 and plan9port I've noticed that on plan9port
> (from Arch Linux's repository) the tagline seems to have the ability
> to wrap onto multiple lines. I quite like it because I end up with
> some (unfortunately unavoidable) long paths in them.
> Plan9's acme (I'm using 9atom) doesn't seem to do this and just gets
> cut off the end. Is there a way to let it wrap? I could not find any
> related comments in the manual.

you'd need to backport p9p acme to plan 9.

> Secondly, I'm trying to make a little "guide" script for acme so I can
> write "Guide" in the tagline and whenever I run it a +Errors window
> shows a quick jump-to list for the functions in the file.
> I've got a small awk script ready and working and generating output in
> the right format but I can't seem to get it to plug in to acme in
> plan9port.
> I've attempted to do "9p read /acme/$winid/body" but I keep getting
> "connect: /tmp/ns.riddler.:0/: Connection refused"
> I found a few references to this error in context with factotum but
> not any fixes. Any suggestions as to what I'm missing?

are you running plumber?

- erik