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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fn oddity with acme
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:04:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0812270904h5ee2bb9eg417c5bb6f2ee0c6a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16ff6b980812250316l1471557ax79ab367c7942a09e@mail.gmail.com>

>> fn acme { builtin acme -f /lib/font/bit/fixed/unicode.8x13.font $*}
>
> Ah thanks, I would have never thought of using builtin in that case, I
> thought that the word following builtin had to be an rc built-in
> command.

I doubt that "builtin acme" was a planned feature of rc,
though it's a neat trick.  If you want to be clearer, you
could write /bin/acme.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-27 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-24 17:50 Mathieu
2008-12-24 18:04 ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-24 22:54   ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2008-12-25  0:55     ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-25 11:16       ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2008-12-27 17:04         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2008-12-27 19:09           ` erik quanstrom

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