From: "Rubén Berenguel" <ruben@mostlymaths.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme: single quotes and hyphens
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:30:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk2O6qMLpiz4hzTVT_W3yKGDgOnuTq2cZMTdY2J1uigyaOe8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABwHSOsX4QbShkh+rC+CqCnm6WWvU+eXksgPC3+NSNPiuEqu8A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:
> fmt works fine. Thanks. BTW, besides 'Edit ,', is there an easier way
> to select an entire file (to send to a program)?
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Bence Fábián <begnoc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No problem. Use |fmt to word wrap. nroff does much more.
>>
>>
>> 2013/12/14 Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>
>>
>>> Apology. I started using a shell script I created to perform text wrap
>>> in acme by executing the script with |wrap
>>> Turns out it is my script (nroff version of groff) that is doing it.
>>> That should be easy to fix.
>>>
>>> Thanks, and sorry about the confusion.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Bence Fábián <begnoc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's your keyboard layout. acme does no such thing to my knowledge.
>>>> Also it has nothing to do with the font. I assume you use p9p acme
>>>> on Mac OS X based on your last letter. So I can't help you more.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2013/12/14 Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>
>>>>
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>
>>>>> While working with acme I had a problem with spell checking.
>>>>> Investigating, I discovered that my setup of acme is not using normal
>>>>> single quotes or hyphens. Instead of inserting what all other editors
>>>>> insert when I hit my single quote or dash keys, acme is inserting some
>>>>> other (2 byte?) character. I understand unicode but I am American-English.
>>>>> My compiler and spell checker expect single byte, standard ASCII codes for
>>>>> dash and single quotes. I absolutely can't use acme like this.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using the standard font. Is there a way for me to correct this
>>>>> behavior?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Blake McBride
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-14 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-14 17:52 Blake McBride
2013-12-14 18:15 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-14 18:22 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-14 18:36 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-14 18:40 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-14 19:22 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-14 19:30 ` Rubén Berenguel [this message]
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