[9fans] acme: some thoughts about design

[<cej@gli.cas.cz>]

Thanks for reaction! Here is some explanations to what i meant...

/As I mentioned earlier, wouldn't a frame with [sorted] listing of
//window tags be a cleaner solution for navigation?

> i don't think so, no. how would it work? say i have some window
> containing this list. how's it sorted? lists are one-dimensional; my
> acme window arangement is not. while there's a trivial way to do
> the transformation (go down col 1, then col 2...), that becomes
> quite awkward, mentally.

why? the list will always take you to the correct place, won't it? otherwise, OK, one  could have such window for each column separately...

> but the biggest problem is that i want to look at a window and
> know which file i'm editing. 

cursor position | highlighting in "listing/tag window" not sufficient?
 
> i have a lot of acme windows most of

so do i ;-)

> the time, and counting down a list - even given some kind of
> markers denoting col boundaries - seems like it would take
> forever.

> and how would commands work? how do you tell Put which
> window to Put if they're all in a list?

use last "ordinary window" ... i think

> actually, this all sounds so bad to me i've concluded i don't
> really understand what you're suggesting.       care to sort me out?


best regards,
++pac.