[9fans] acme programming questions

[Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>]

I've been trying my hand at some very simple acme programming
tasks and have some questions.  I'm interested in a utility
that translate dot into a filename:line-line range and a
utility that waits for an acme window to be closed.  If I'm
reinventing these, I'd love to hear about existing programs
that do these.

I wrote a small tool to translate dot into filename:address
and in the process noticed that its relatively easy to
get the dot positions in terms of characters, but I couldn't
find a good way to translate those into line numbers without
manually processing the input file and counting newlines.
Is there a better way to do this?  If I had a tool to do
the translation I could do the rest of the process in rc.
As it stands I ended up doing it all in C.
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/x/9/aaddr
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/x/9/acmeaddr.c

I wrote a small tool to wait for a window to be closed by
reading the event file and copying back all events that
had the ``1'' bit set in the flag.  This allows many of the
events to occur, but none of the search features work.  Can I
have acme's default search behavior by feeding back more
events to acme?
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/x/9/acmewait.c

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/