From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:17:00 +0100 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Mips kernel In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: a8780e1e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 8/13/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > > but if you don't start rio, the drawterm console only provides limited > > functionality, > > (unless i tried a broken version) - no mouse selection, cut, paste, hold-mode, > > scrollback, etc. > > you didn't say you wanted those. ;-) what about ssh? ssh isn't too hard > to setup. you will need netkey from p9p. ... but if i used ssh, i wouldn't get easy access to /mnt/term, with all of the benefits that that implies. likewise, i wouldn't be able to create new shell or rio windows spawned from within the same cpu session (i.e. sharing the same environment, including the name space). when i use inferno as a drawterm, i get a local shell window, but plumbed images pop up in new inferno windows, and plumbed files show up in my acme window. i.e. i get the best of both worlds (not quite as good as running native plan 9, of course, but better than drawterm IMHO)