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From: Rian Hunter <rian@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [9fans] tab completion and command history in rc
Date: Thu,  3 Nov 2005 20:56:44 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Disclaimer:

Please don't take me the wrong way, I spent a large portion of today  
reading the Plan 9 papers and the descriptions behind sam and rc, as  
well as various man pages. I guess I didn't think to look in the  
window(1) man page for the answers to my question was because i  
thought this would be implemented in rc than in rio (basically  
because that's how its done in unix). I credit this blunder to still  
having a very unixish perception of Plan 9.

I knew about mouse-chording/send from reading doc on Acme, but I  
didn't realize it was also used in rio. Once I become more familiar  
with this interface I can see myself liking it a lot. As for now I'm  
still grumpy when I have to remove my hands from the home position on  
the keyboard, but i know that new ideas and innovation require change  
and challenge to old de factos and standards.

Thanks for your patience and immediate replies!

Rian Hunter

On Nov 3, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Uriel wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:14:29PM -0500, John Floren wrote:
>> As for command history, you are expected to
>> find the previous command in your rc window, edit it, copy it,  
>> paste it
>> to the prompt, and then run it.  This is obviously more efficient  
>> than
>> hitting the "up" arrow.
> No need to copy/paste(and if you do, do it mouse-chording), you can  
> use
> "Send" directly.
>
> Edit any line in your window, double click at the start or end of the
> line to select it, and then Middle-click->Send; is a very common and
> useful idiom(note that in the default profile your shell prompt is
> defined as a NOP function precisely for this).
>
> This are all FAQs, I think for the most part are well documented in  
> the
> papers, man pages and the Wiki; and of course lots of material and in
> the 9fans archives.
>
> The Plan 9 community can be friendly or harsh, but reading the docs is
> always well worth the time.
>
> uriel