From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 09:33:14 +0000 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme SAC for OS X Version 0.24 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <01f3cc2f7d585e51173836ca020ace1a@mail.rpi.edu> <20071105234842.4BF7D1E8C48@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb32d41e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 11/6/07, Caerwyn Jones wrote: > there is a bug in inferno acme where exec of 'Look hello' ignores the > arg 'hello'. i believe this is an original bug "feature" of the original (alef) version of acme, from which the inferno acme was translated. unfortunately i've lost access to any dumps before 2002, so i can't verify when it was fixed. to be honest, i think it's quite rare to use an argument with Look - i only use Look when there's some literal text in the body that i want to search for, but also names a file or directory. if there's no literal text in the body, it's usually easier to type :/pattern in the tag.