Re: [9fans] Acme: spaces in file names

[Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>]

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Discovering button-3-drag, is there a reason button-3-drag could not be
made to load a file or directory with spaces in it?  In other words, would
this conflict with some other intended operation?

Thanks.

Blake



On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:

> When you button-2-click on text acme executes the word.  If you want to
> execute something larger with spaces, you highlight the whole thing and
> then button-2-click on it to execute the whole thing.
>
> When you button-3-click on text in a file list buffer acme loads the file
> with that name.  I should be able to highlight a file name with spaces and
> then button-3-click on it to load the file.  This would be totally
> consistent.
>
> It there a reason this hasn't been done?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Rubén Berenguel <ruben@mostlymaths.net>wrote:
>
>> A kind of crude workaround is using the whole /Users/whatever/file with
>> spaces, selecting it with first button and 1-2 chording it to Get. This
>> works on Mac, problem is that it's quite horrible to do. An intermediate
>> solution may be to use some piping rule like sp:filename with spaces, but I
>> don't remember if piping works with right-button and selected text or
>> follows the same rules as opening a file.
>>
>> Ruben
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Someone once made a little filesystem that would substitute spaces in
>>> filenames with a different character. When placed between the normal fs and
>>> Acme, this would make things work quite nicely.
>>>
>>> If I remember correctly, Acme-SAC (built on top of Inferno) does that by
>>> default.
>>>
>>> No idea where you can find such a fs for Mac though. But this might give
>>> you a start.
>>>
>>> Robby
>>>  On Dec 11, 2013 6:19 PM, "Blake McBride" <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> Just started using acme (and sam).  Cool.
>>>>
>>>> I am using acme on a Mac form plan9port.
>>>>
>>>> Within a file list one can right-click a listing in order to decend into
>>>> another directory or load a file.  The problem is that neither work if a
>>>> space is contained within the name.  Apparently, the right-click
>>>> functionality only looks at non-white space strings.  An easy fix to this
>>>> would be to allow the user to highlight the entire string (including
>>>> spaces) and then right-click as normal.  The system would allow the
>>>> highlight facility to override the "just test for contigous non-space
>>>> string" current functionality.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Blake McBride
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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