Re: [9fans] acme Put doesn't save

[roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>]

2009/3/4 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> if on the other hand you try to modify the name of a directory
> listing frame, the tag line box is not filled.  this is a hint
> that you're doing something wrong.  also there is no Put option.
> this is a bigger hint that you're doing something wrong.

not really - +Errors windows fulfil both of those criteria,
but Put works fine in those.

> the reason that directories behave differently is that in acme
> programs are allowed to take over a window.  while the directory
> listing is built in, it operates on the same principle, and it does
> not make sense to write a directory through acme's interface.

i agree it doesn't make sense to write a directory, but
you can't anyway, even if the interface allowed it,
and the resulting error message would be self-expanatory.

personally, i think that Put should work on any non-application
window, and that re-columnation should only take place if
the textual content hasn't been modified by the user. (and
probably also that if you change the name of a window to a directory
name and do "Get", that it would get a directory listing).

but YMMV as always.