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From: Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme: spaces in file names
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:00:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABwHSOuvhUUM5ucMQuKwU9WmYPqEqepzfB79qE9z25AJFOzTRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGMcHPr3BppH=-Oz=1D0xe2BG3ERcFitCXb8i1sEf=CWG-m_3g@mail.gmail.com>

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Thanks for the suggestion.  I really wish acme were just fixed.  I find
acme a beautiful editor.  A small number of issues render the editor too
much of a hassle to use for me.  It is a shame because I really like it.
 It is clean, simple, easy to learn, and powerful.

Thanks.

Blake



On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Riddler <riddler876@gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps making the tagline a special case where acme will read from the
> left to the bar | and use that for the file/directory name.
>
> You would still have to chord it elsewhere but it might fix the most
> annoying issue (inability to one click put etc)
>
> Thoughts?
> On 19 Aug 2014 21:40, "Blake McBride" <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:
>
>> B 'some directory name with spaces'
>>
>> does load the directory correctly.  But as soon as you put the cursor
>> into the directory acme changes the buffer header from "some directory name
>> with spaces" to "some".  Not supporting space in file/directory names has
>> been the single biggest impediment to my use of acme.
>>
>> I noticed Wily doesn't have this problem.  Of course it is missing win,
>> Edit, Tab, etc....
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Blake
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:39 PM, andrey mirtchovski <
>> mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> with the plumber running, issuing "B /anyfile" will open the file in
>>> acme, even if acme isn't running. this is very useful when you start
>>> scripting little tools.
>>>
>>> i think this covers everything about acme :)
>>>
>>>
>>

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11 18:17 Blake McBride
2013-12-12 16:53 ` Robert Raschke
2013-12-12 17:00   ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-12-12 21:10     ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 15:25       ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 15:38         ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-12-15 16:19           ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 16:26             ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-12-15 16:38               ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 17:51                 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-12-15 17:56                   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 19:39                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2014-08-19 20:37                       ` Blake McBride
2014-08-20  9:03                         ` Riddler
2014-08-20 18:00                           ` Blake McBride [this message]
2014-08-21 15:32                             ` Skip Tavakkolian

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