From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201109191055.56851.dexen.devries@gmail.com> References: <201109191055.56851.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:13:16 +0100 Message-ID: From: roger peppe To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] reverse search direction in p9p acme Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2941f4de-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 19 September 2011 09:55, dexen deVries wrote: > On Monday 19 of September 2011 10:37:54 roger peppe wrote: >> i'm not sure about adding more invisible state to acme >> windows. > > if `hidden' is the keyword, then let's have some new files in acme's cont= rol > file hierarchy for various =C2=A0bits of state. making the state available to programs doesn't really cut it for me. for it to be useful in moment-to-moment interactions with acme, it must be visible on screen, in the same way that the dirty bit has the top left indicator (well, mostly). > privately i think the Rev command is redundant, but meh. well, i've gone all these years without it, so it is redundant in that sense, but it still feels a bit awkward when browsing a large file and right clicking one-too-many times, that i have to copy the text to the tag, insert :-/, reselect and/or quote metacharacters, and click. it's a sequence i often get slightly wrong too by getting the selection slightly out. a single-click reverse search would quickly internalise and be very useful i think. the difficulty is coming up with the right way of doing it.