* [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands @ 2013-09-05 20:16 James A. Robinson 2013-09-05 20:17 ` James A. Robinson 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: James A. Robinson @ 2013-09-05 20:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 275 bytes --] Hi folks, I can't spot anything in the man page about this: is it expected that Acme win will echo the trailing part of a Send command if the length of the command exceeds 75 characters? An example: http://highwire.stanford.edu/~jimr/acme-win-76.png Jim [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 522 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands 2013-09-05 20:16 [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands James A. Robinson @ 2013-09-05 20:17 ` James A. Robinson 2013-09-05 22:13 ` erik quanstrom 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: James A. Robinson @ 2013-09-05 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 502 bytes --] D'oh, I'm thinking maybe it's bash that is doing this (since bash is my default shell instead of rc). On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 PM, James A. Robinson < jimr@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I can't spot anything in the man page about this: is > it expected that Acme win will echo the trailing part > of a Send command if the length of the command > exceeds 75 characters? > > An example: > > http://highwire.stanford.edu/~jimr/acme-win-76.png > > > Jim > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1073 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands 2013-09-05 20:17 ` James A. Robinson @ 2013-09-05 22:13 ` erik quanstrom 2013-09-06 0:30 ` Rob Pike 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2013-09-05 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: jimr, 9fans On Thu Sep 5 16:19:19 EDT 2013, jimr@highwire.stanford.edu wrote: > D'oh, I'm thinking maybe it's bash that is doing > this (since bash is my default shell instead of > rc). it's likely readline, which has an 80-column mind. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands 2013-09-05 22:13 ` erik quanstrom @ 2013-09-06 0:30 ` Rob Pike 2013-09-06 3:06 ` James A. Robinson 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Rob Pike @ 2013-09-06 0:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs; +Cc: jimr Try set +o emacs (sic) -rob ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands 2013-09-06 0:30 ` Rob Pike @ 2013-09-06 3:06 ` James A. Robinson 2013-09-06 4:10 ` Rob Pike 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: James A. Robinson @ 2013-09-06 3:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 667 bytes --] 2013/9/5 Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> > Try > > set +o emacs > > (sic) > Thank you, that did it. Interesting that it's a +o command to turn something off. bash(1) ... READLINE This is the library that handles reading input when using an interactive shell, unless the --noediting option is given at shell invocation. By default, the line editing commands are similar to those of emacs. A vi-style line editing interface is also available. To turn off line editing after the shell is running, use the +o emacs or +o vi options to the set builtin (see SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below). ... [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1558 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands 2013-09-06 3:06 ` James A. Robinson @ 2013-09-06 4:10 ` Rob Pike 2013-09-06 5:23 ` Bruce Ellis 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Rob Pike @ 2013-09-06 4:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: jimr, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs You give a shell command the flag -X to turn on X, so +X to turn off X makes sense in a negative true kinda way. -rob ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands 2013-09-06 4:10 ` Rob Pike @ 2013-09-06 5:23 ` Bruce Ellis 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Bruce Ellis @ 2013-09-06 5:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 244 bytes --] just don't forget to unset nonomatch On 6 September 2013 14:10, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote: > You give a shell command the flag -X to turn on X, so +X to turn off X > makes sense in a negative true kinda way. > > -rob > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 606 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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