From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <83109255370bf46152ae8d1bb04a463f@chula.quanstro.net> References: <6C4DE0B7-6B44-4ABD-83A4-44E72A300DC0@gmail.com> <83109255370bf46152ae8d1bb04a463f@chula.quanstro.net> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 21:07:35 -0700 Message-ID: From: Paul Lalonde To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001485f7d07a5433dc04aee9ee8d Subject: Re: [9fans] acme multi-line tags (or maybe, efficient message stores) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3545f4ce-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001485f7d07a5433dc04aee9ee8d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I often keep an Edit I'm refining in a separate tag line for easy selection. But the real use was in keeping commands that need chorded parameters, so my debugger sessions, for example, keep a line of "list print break" etc, so I can chord in the parameter easily. That way I don't have to construct the breakpoint instruction in a scratch window, and I can keep enough of them around to be useful - one tag line isn't big enough. Paul On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 8:21 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > didn't have the time to make that change. That said, I find acme (and > > Edit in particular) damned near unusable without multi-line tags now. > > do you have a particular usage senerio where this is most apparent? > > - erik > > -- I'm migrating my email. plalonde@telus.net will soon be disconnected. Please use paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com from now on. --001485f7d07a5433dc04aee9ee8d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I often keep an Edit I'm refining in a separate tag line for easy selec= tion.
But the real use was in keeping commands that need chorded parame= ters, so my debugger sessions, for example, keep a line of "list print= break" etc, so I can chord in the parameter easily. =A0That way I don= 't have to construct the breakpoint instruction in a scratch window, an= d I can keep enough of them around to be useful - one tag line isn't bi= g enough.

Paul

On Su= n, Oct 9, 2011 at 8:21 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> didn't have the = time to make that change. =A0That said, I find acme (and
> Edit in particular) damned near unusable without multi-line tags now.<= br>
do you have a particular usage senerio where this is most apparent?
- erik




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