On 8-Oct-05, at 6:33 AM, Uriel wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 06:19:38AM -0700, Paul Lalonde wrote:
>
>> Ah - I forgot to mention; ever since my shuttle turned into an
>> unresponsive pile of silicon, I've been working in plan9port under OS
>> X; patch doesn't exist there :-(
>>
> Oh, well, that still should let you upload stuff to a sources/contrib
> dir using 9p(1) or the python 9p client. Or you can drawterm to a  
> 9grid
> node.
>
>
>> I used to think that too; but I found myself using the longer tag to
>> hide less-frequent commands, especially with my debugger.  I know I
>> can use "Send" to bridge from a guide file, but then I can't also
>> chord in a parameter.  So, debugging with GDB in particular, I need
>> break, display, print,  and so on, in my tag if I want to chord
>> parameters.  Now I keep them tucked on the second line, and find
>> myself opening my tag, chording the command, and closing it up, all
>> in one "gesture".  Incidentally - you can already cut and paste
>> newlines into the tag.
>>
> I agree, but still I'm unsure \n should be accepted in the tag just
> making the text flow into the following line when it doesn't fit in  
> the
> current one should be enough... but I can't think of any strong reason
> to avoid \n except simplicity as things like dump assume a single  
> line.
>
> It would be nice if there was a way to see that there are more lines
> than what is visible... not sure how that can be done without an extra
> scroll bar, but that I think would be a bad idea.
>
> But I should try the patch before commenting so much :)
>
> uriel
>