What do you mean by resizing flicker?  I've never seen it with the
multi-line tags.  And we do resize the tag by hand - the scroll wheel opens
and shuts it, in addition to adding/removing the trailing newline.

On Mon Oct 27 2014 at 8:44:57 PM erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
wrote:

> On Mon Oct 27 19:39:19 EDT 2014, paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > We (Russ and I) never ported it back to Plan9 because there's a subtle
> > layout bug when columns have different height fonts for the tag and the
> > body.  I works well enough for us, but isn't at the quality it should be.
>
> the layout is tricky.  and it's hard to prevent resizing flicker.  perhaps
> forcing
> the user to resize the tag by hand might be smoother.
>
> better yet, i'd love to see acme extended to the point where an external
> program could provide
> a sam(1)-style window rather than fiddling with the tag.
>
> - erik
>
>