From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "James A. Robinson" Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:04:46 -0700 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d0438931ddda08f04e4ed864a Subject: [9fans] acme label lengths in tags Topicbox-Message-UUID: 74c6c37a-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --f46d0438931ddda08f04e4ed864a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Do you folks have any solutions to shortening the length of labels in acme? Back when I used Wily it had a nice feature to use environment variables if it found a match, e.g., one could set h=/Users/jimr and wily would show $h instead of /Users/jimr in the tag. Anyone know of similar techniques in Acme? Jim --f46d0438931ddda08f04e4ed864a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Do you folks have any solutions to shortening the lengthof labels in acme? =C2=A0Back when I used Wily it had a nice
f= eature to use environment variables if it found a match,
e.g., on= e could set h=3D/Users/jimr and wily would show
$h instead of /Users/jimr in the tag. =C2=A0Anyone know of
s= imilar techniques in Acme?

Jim

--f46d0438931ddda08f04e4ed864a-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:44:06 +0100 Message-ID: From: Robert Raschke To: jimr@highwire.stanford.edu, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0112ce200f2c8c04e4ee119b Subject: Re: [9fans] acme label lengths in tags Topicbox-Message-UUID: 74d10498-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --089e0112ce200f2c8c04e4ee119b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Plan 9 use bind to create yourself a nice hierarchy. Like 'bind -a /Users/jimr /me' or similar. Not sure how easy that is under *nix with p9p, haven't tried that yet. And your /Users makes me think you're on Mac. Robby On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:04 PM, James A. Robinson < jimr@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote: > Do you folks have any solutions to shortening the length > of labels in acme? Back when I used Wily it had a nice > feature to use environment variables if it found a match, > e.g., one could set h=/Users/jimr and wily would show > $h instead of /Users/jimr in the tag. Anyone know of > similar techniques in Acme? > > Jim > > --089e0112ce200f2c8c04e4ee119b Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Plan 9 use bind to create yourself a nice hie= rarchy. Like 'bind -a /Users/jimr /me' or similar.

Not= sure how easy that is under *nix with p9p, haven't tried that yet. And= your /Users makes me think you're on Mac.

Robby



On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:04 PM, James A. Robinson <jimr@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote:
Do you folks have any solut= ions to shortening the length
of labels in acme? =C2=A0Back when I used= Wily it had a nice
feature to use environment variables if it found a match,
e.= g., one could set h=3D/Users/jimr and wily would show
$h instead of /Users/jimr in the tag. =C2=A0Anyone know of
s= imilar techniques in Acme?

Jim


--089e0112ce200f2c8c04e4ee119b-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: "James A. Robinson" Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:09:41 -0700 Message-ID: To: Robert Raschke Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b450a42f9337804e4ee6ec1 Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] acme label lengths in tags Topicbox-Message-UUID: 74dd9f1e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7b450a42f9337804e4ee6ec1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Robert Raschke wrote: > On Plan 9 use bind to create yourself a nice hierarchy. Like 'bind -a > /Users/jimr /me' or similar. > > Not sure how easy that is under *nix with p9p, haven't tried that yet. And > your /Users makes me think you're on Mac. Yeah, I forgot to mention that. I'm using plan9port on Mac OS X. Jim --047d7b450a42f9337804e4ee6ec1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Plan 9 use bind to create yourself a nice hierarchy. Like 'bind -a /Users/jimr /me' or similar.

Not sure how easy that is under *nix with p9p, haven't tried that yet. And your /Users makes me think you're on Mac.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that. I'm using plan9port on Mac OS X.

Jim

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