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

[Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>]

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Blake-Mac-17:tmp blake$ 9p read plumb/rules
9p: mount: dial unix!/tmp/ns.blake._tmp_launch-nvfpC3_org.x:0/plumb:
connect /tmp/ns.blake._tmp_launch-nvfpC3_org.x:0/plumb: No such file

I don't have to do this when I search for text with spaces, or to execute a
command with spaces.  Not being able to load files or directories with
spaces is, and I mean this in the most respectfull way, short sighted and
inconsistent IMO.  As long as a fix doesn't limit some existing
functionality, I think it should be corrected.  I am qualified to make such
a correction but, not being familiar with the code, I estimate it would
take me a whole day to do.  I'd bet it would take someone famaliar with the
code an hour.  My time, like all of yours, is very limited.  I will make
the change when my time permits.  My hope is that someone more familiar
with the code can make it before then.

Thanks.

Blake



On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de> wrote:

> I think the reason is that filenames with spaces are not very common in
> Plan 9.
> If you're running plumber, you can probably adjust the regular
> exressions for file matching in your $HOME/lib/plumbing file.
>
> If you don't have that file yet:
> 9p read plumb/rules >$HOME/lib/plumbing
>
> ~Fritz
>
> Am 15.12.2013 16:25, schrieb Blake McBride:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> >             <mailto: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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