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