Re: [9fans] Acme questions

["roger peppe" <rogpeppe@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> I think double-clicking on the box to the left of the column information
> line thingy should do it.

erm. you really could have tried this first.
it doesn't take much, you know.

for the record, i once had a go at implementing a "hide" command within acme,
but i never got it stable enough to make available. it would be nice if more of
the invariants in the acme code were documented.

what i was really aiming towards was a way to allow acme to take
up multiple rio windows - the idea would be to allow dragging of acme
windows (or columns) between the acme rio windows. that way i could
edit a load of related files in a single rio window but avoid cluttering things
up when i want to digress into another project for a while (but also avoid
the risk of simul-editing a file that you get when starting two acmes at the
same time).

it could also make the X command more useful than it currently is.
in sam, the X command is great because you can edit many
related files at the same time without necessarily cluttering
the screen with them, but in acme it's a bit of a pain to do a global
edit across (say) 100 source files. it's for this sort of thing i end
up firing up sam -d, but it's so easy to waste time with files that i'm
already editing, etc.

at the acme data structure level, i reckoned it shouldn't be too hard - there
are multiple Windows per Column, multiple Columns per Row, but there's
only one Row. if there were multiple rio windows, each would be represented by
a Row, but so far i've always got bogged down in the implementation details,
time restrictions and my own brain limitations...