Re: [9fans] acme: send dot to the stdin of a more complicated command

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I tried to modify Russ' script below to be usable on p9p. I came up with
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#!/usr/local/plan9/bin/rc

if(! ~ $#* 1) {
        echo 'usage: Run title' >[1=2]
        exit 1
}

id=`{awk -v 'pat='$1 '$6 ~ pat {print $1}' <{9p read acme/index}}
if(~ $#id 0) {
        echo 'no match for pattern' >[1=2]
        exit 2
}
if(! ~ $#id 1) {
        echo 'ambiguous pattern' >[1=2]
        exit 3
}
if(~ `{wc -w <{9p read acme/$id/rdsel}} 0) {
        echo 'no command selected' >[1=2]
        exit 4
}
#exec cat <{9p read acme/$id/rdsel}
exec /usr/local/plan9/bin/rc <{9p read acme/$id/rdsel}
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but the last line doesn't really do what I want, yielding the error:
Run: exit 1
rc: /dev/fd/5:2: token EOF: syntax error

can anybody help me with what is wrong?
The commented-out line with cat prints correctly what I have
selected in the other window (see the description of the original
script), e.g.
>awk '{print $2}'

Thank you!
Ruda



On 8 June 2009 20:15, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> well, though an inspiring idea, it doesn't sound to be much practical:
>> 1) I usually have a special window in which I have many commands. I
>> then select the one needed and chord it to the appropriate window
>> (i.e. I don't use the whole contents of a window).
>> 2) sometimes I have more such windows.
>
> This is an interesting usage model.  I've never seen it before.
> The power of acme is that you can extend it with external
> programs.  The script below implements this usage; I called it Run.
> You can type and select your command in one window, with a name matching
> pattern, and then in the other window's tag execute >Run pattern.
> Run finds the window with a title matching pattern, pulls out the
> selected text, and runs it through rc.
>
> See http://swtch.com/~rsc/acme-Run.png for an illustration.
>
> Russ
>
>
> #!/bin/rc
>
> if(! ~ $#* 1) {
>         echo 'usage: Run title' >[1=2]
>         exit usage
> }
>
> id=`{awk -v 'pat='$1 '$6 ~ pat {print $1}' /mnt/wsys/index}
> if(~ $#id 0) {
>         echo 'no match for pattern' >[1=2]
>         exit none
> }
> if(! ~ $#id 1) {
>         echo 'ambiguous pattern' >[1=2]
>         exit ambiguous
> }
> if(~ `{wc -w /mnt/wsys/$id/rdsel} 0) {
>         echo 'no command selected' >[1=2]
>         exit missing
> }
> exec rc /mnt/wsys/$id/rdsel
>