Re: [9fans] Acme 3-1

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> 3-1 and 2-1 are already defined: they cancel button 3 and button 2 actions.
> I would object to giving them another meaning.

i thought 2-1 appended the most recently selected text as an argument
to the executed command (and 2-3 cancels the b2 action).  i use this
for Edit commands (and was confused a moment ago because it doesn't
work in Mail windows).

as far as i can see 3-1 is the only button chord that's currently
redundant (has the same meaning as 3-2):

	1	select
	2	execute
	3	look
	1-2	cut
	1-3	paste
	2-1	execute with args
	2-3	cancel execute
	3-1	cancel look
	3-2	cancel look

that's not an argument for giving it a new meaning!

i do sometimes wish for a way to express plumbing preferences
dynamically (e.g.  when starting a new copy of acme and wishing that
a) text files would open in the new copy and b) that other plumbing
would still work).

i wondered if perhaps it might make sense for an application to be
able to write a "priority" message to the plumbing "send" file -
plumbing messages would be then routed to that app in preference to
others (a plumbing message would be sent to only one app, rather than
fanning out as currently).

an application could send the "priority" message when its window was
raised.  this might provide behaviour that seemed reasonably natural.

what currently depends on the fan-out behaviour of plumbing?
(mail/fs, i guess, when messages are deleted, but that's very slow,
and works without plumbing anyway).