From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>,
kvchokw02@sneakemail.com
Subject: Re: [9fans] Dotfiles
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:40:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0501022140442d532c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13416-74998@sneakemail.com>
> I posted this to comp.os.plan9 in October and got no reply, but
> apparently the usenet to 9fans gateway hasn't been working.
It rarely works.
> This seems like a very nice solution, but Getdir doesn't appear to "work
> correctly in the presences of variable-width fonts" for me.
>
> I'm running
>
> acme -f $PLAN9/font/lucidasans/unicode.6.font -F
> $PLAN9/font/lucidasans/typeunicode.6.font
>
> and when I type Getdir into the tag of my home directory and B2 on it,
> all dot file are eliminated (yippee), but the second column of file
> names doesn't line up. If I execute Font to switch to a fixed width
> font, the second column of file names does line up.
>
> Am I missing something or doing something wrong?
What an embarrassing bug. For now, change the char buf[128]
in acme/xfid.c's xfidread to char buf[256] and recompile acme.
I will put in a better fix later.
Thanks for the report.
Russ
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2005-01-03 5:12 kvchokw02
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