[9fans] Standalone *nix port of sam

[9fans] Standalone *nix port of sam

[Rob King]

Hello everyone,
    I don't know how much interest there'd be, but if anyone ever needs
to run sam standalone on *nix (that is, without plan9port), there's a
standalone version available. It's based on the original port to X11
back in the 80s released by Lucent in 1989 or so.

    There aren't any dependencies other than Xlib/Xft, and it comes with
scalable font support, a much improved B shell command (handles multiple
instances of sam, and even better can be invoked on any machine involved
in a sam -r session, even the remote one), and a few other changes.

    So yeah, it's not sam on Plan 9, but I have to use Linux on my work
machines and can't install plan9port on them, so...there ya go. It
should work on other *nix systems too, but I don't have any to try it
out on. The code isn't pretty; I just hacked on it until I got it
working the way I wanted to, but it's been stable enough for me.

    The source is at http://www.deadpixi.com/an-updated-version-of-sam

    Please let me know if you have any questions.

    Rob

Re: [9fans] Standalone *nix port of sam

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

Thanks for doing this.

Btw, if you want B to work (and plumbing) on the remote machine with
plan9port, you can do something like this: http://sprunge.us/gFSF.

It starts a plumber process on the remote machine, and mounts it
locally. B will work in a regular (e.g. xterm) ssh session, but if you
use 9term you can even plumb normally.

-- 
Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] Standalone *nix port of sam

[Steve Simon]

I haven't tried your code (sorry, I tend to use native plan9 as my GUI).

I do remember those days and there was a worthwhile patch to add a scrolling
list of files on the samfans list - I think rob was unhappy with the UI
but it was so useful that plan9's sam got the change; I'am not sure if the
X11 port ever did.

There4 was also a chording patch to make cut and paste work like acme, but my
fingers have never been agile enough to do this reliably, so its of less#
interest to me.

-Steve

Re: [9fans] Standalone *nix port of sam

[Iruatã Souza]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> There4 was also a chording patch to make cut and paste work like acme, but my
> fingers have never been agile enough to do this reliably, so its of less#
> interest to me.
>

9front sam does it in case it is of interest.

Re: [9fans] Standalone *nix port of sam

[Ryan Gonzalez]

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Looks great!

However, I would advise against the CC=cc... lines in the makefiles. They
break badly when I execute the commonly-done `make CC=my_compiler`. In
particular, the Makefile in sam/sam has this:

CC=cc $(SYSFLAGS)

Which obviously breaks when I set CC to a custom compiler. Can't SYSFLAGS
be added to CFLAGS instead?

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Rob King <jking@deadpixi.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>     I don't know how much interest there'd be, but if anyone ever needs
> to run sam standalone on *nix (that is, without plan9port), there's a
> standalone version available. It's based on the original port to X11
> back in the 80s released by Lucent in 1989 or so.
>
>     There aren't any dependencies other than Xlib/Xft, and it comes with
> scalable font support, a much improved B shell command (handles multiple
> instances of sam, and even better can be invoked on any machine involved
> in a sam -r session, even the remote one), and a few other changes.
>
>     So yeah, it's not sam on Plan 9, but I have to use Linux on my work
> machines and can't install plan9port on them, so...there ya go. It
> should work on other *nix systems too, but I don't have any to try it
> out on. The code isn't pretty; I just hacked on it until I got it
> working the way I wanted to, but it's been stable enough for me.
>
>     The source is at http://www.deadpixi.com/an-updated-version-of-sam
>
>     Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
>     Rob
>
>
>


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Re: [9fans] Standalone *nix port of sam

[Peter Penzin]

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Works on Linux, thank you!

It does not build on FreeBSD, trying to find out why. Are you hosting this
code anywhere?

-Peter

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Rob King <jking@deadpixi.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>     I don't know how much interest there'd be, but if anyone ever needs
> to run sam standalone on *nix (that is, without plan9port), there's a
> standalone version available. It's based on the original port to X11
> back in the 80s released by Lucent in 1989 or so.
>
>     There aren't any dependencies other than Xlib/Xft, and it comes with
> scalable font support, a much improved B shell command (handles multiple
> instances of sam, and even better can be invoked on any machine involved
> in a sam -r session, even the remote one), and a few other changes.
>
>     So yeah, it's not sam on Plan 9, but I have to use Linux on my work
> machines and can't install plan9port on them, so...there ya go. It
> should work on other *nix systems too, but I don't have any to try it
> out on. The code isn't pretty; I just hacked on it until I got it
> working the way I wanted to, but it's been stable enough for me.
>
>     The source is at http://www.deadpixi.com/an-updated-version-of-sam
>
>     Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
>     Rob
>
>
>

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