Re: [9fans] acme Put doesn't save

[yy <yiyu.jgl@gmail.com>]

2009/3/4 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>:
> Hello
>
> I am running p9p acme. I open a directory, so in the tag line I have
> sth. ending with '/' and in the window I have the list of files in
> that directory. Now I go to the tag line and append a name, say 'a',
> to the existing path, i.e. now I have there e.g. '/home/ruda/a'. Then
> I write Put somewhere and try to middle click it thinking the window
> contents gets saved to '/home/ruda/a'. But it does not. Why?
>
> Thanks
> Ruda
>

Because at the beginning of the put function in exec.c you have:
	if(et==nil || et->w==nil || et->w->isdir)
		return;
and et->w->isdir is true. But there are workarounds if you want to
save the contents of the window.



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