Re: [9fans] assigning acme windows to columns programmatically

[Joseph Xu <josephzxu@gmail.com>]

Adding this feature turned out to be pretty easy. If anyone else is
interested, here's a patch that allows you to write a message of the
form "col i\n" to /n/ctl to move window n to the i th column from the
left, starting with 0.

diff -r ad2f6f64fbc8 src/cmd/acme/xfid.c
--- a/src/cmd/acme/xfid.c	Wed Jan 12 00:54:22 2011 -0500
+++ b/src/cmd/acme/xfid.c	Wed Jan 19 03:39:10 2011 -0500
@@ -780,6 +780,26 @@
 		if(strncmp(p, "scroll", 6) == 0){	/* turn on automatic scrolling
(writes to body only) */
 			w->noscroll = FALSE;
 			m = 6;
+		}else
+		if(strncmp(p, "col ", 4) == 0){
+			pp = p+4;
+			m = 4;
+			q = memchr(pp, '\n', e-pp);
+			if(q==nil || q==pp){
+				err = Ebadctl;
+				break;
+			}
+			*q = 0;
+			i = atoi(pp);
+			if(i < 0 || i >= row.ncol){
+				err = Ebadctl;
+				break;
+			}
+			if(row.col[i] != w->col){
+				colclose(w->col, w, FALSE);
+				coladd(row.col[i], w, nil, 0);
+			}
+			m += (q+1) - pp;
 		}else{
 			err = Ebadctl;
 			break;