From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <9A3455DB-8B65-46B3-9F57-6E98639392CB@me.com> From: Mark van Atten Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 21:10:40 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Musings on Interfaces Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b2500bc-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 7:20 PM, James A. Robinson wrote: > So you couldn't do something like clicking on the start and typing in a > .,// where holds the last few words of the text range you > wanted to select? I understand not having regular markup like a program, > but if a few words could be used to identify the end point I would have > assumed you could use that? That is convenient in cases where I recall a pattern that otherwise would require scrolling to see. Or where I have zeroxed the window and the other one shows the end of the passage in question. But otherwise I may as well use k and '. And of course k and ' (and snarf and paste) work well enough. It is just that acme's scroll-select (and chording) is so much more convenient! Chording as such is possible in p9p sam with one simple modification in the source, but it is the combination with scroll-select that counts here. Mark.