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From: "Rudolf Sykora" <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme/sam linewrapping off
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:05:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d00803231005h14bd3261i4ce450bbf43f7290@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26dfb52aac32560de7e456c3bd8dfb5d@quanstro.net>

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Thanks for the answer, although it did not please me... :(
(In Vim, you only have to do :set nowrap and you are done... From time to
time I find this rather useful.)
Ruda


On 23/03/2008, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> > Is there any way how to sensibly edit a file with long lines (eg. a
> table
> > with many fields, like /sys/lib/lp/devices) using acme/sam? What I miss
> is a
> > way to not wrap long lines when I need to concentrate
> > on the different fields and a whole
> > single line is a true representative of an item (a printer).
>
>
> make the frame long enough to hold the whole line.
>
> for example in acme, use a single column display and a tiny font.  you
> can get one by middle clicking on this
>
>         Font /lib/font/bit/misc/ascii.5x7.font
>
>
> - erik
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-23 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-23 13:22 Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-23 16:18 ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-23 17:05   ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2008-03-23 17:10     ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-23 18:04       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-23 18:14         ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-24  5:38         ` Micah Stetson
2008-03-24  9:22         ` Robert Raschke
2008-03-25  7:33           ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25  9:07             ` Hongzheng Wang
2008-03-25  9:39               ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25 10:01                 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-03-25 14:25                   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25 14:41                     ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-25 16:28                       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25 16:51                 ` ron minnich
2008-03-25 18:04                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-03-25 15:16 gdiaz
2008-03-25 16:30 ` Rudolf Sykora

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