Re: [9fans] Acme and cscope shortcuts

[Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>]

> I was thinking of adding some keyboard + mouse-button shortcuts into
> acme, and was wondering if anyone has suggested this or actually tried
> it before. Here's a short list of what I'd like to do.

Plan 9 keeps the keyboard and mouse separate.  They're different
input devices and are treated as such.  Also, Alt is taken for compose
sequences (so typing Alt, *, a gets you a unicode alpha).

> * In a text window, holding down Alt and clicking button-3 would
> reverse search for the selected text.

I sometimes do wish there was an easier reverse search, but
:-/text will get the job done.

> * Holding Alt and clicking button-2 in the tagline would run the
> tagline command with the selection as an argument. (That would work
> *great* with the cscope trick above.)

As Charles pointed out, a chord exists already for this.

> * Holding Ctrl and clicking button-2 in the tagline would clear the
> output window before running the command.

This seems of dubious value.  I just Del the output window
(I assume you mean the dir/+Errors window) when I want it cleared.

> * A Lineno tag keyword that displays line numbers in a text window.

You mean like vi's :set number?  That'd be hard to implement.
You can get to a particular line with :123 in the tag and you can
find out where you are with Edit =.

> * Oh, and mail so I can finally ditch mutt

Please please please.  Work on this.  Plan 9 has a really nice mail
system that you won't be able to duplicate easily on Unix but at
the least we could get a simple acme mail (maybe based on mh)
going.  There is a framework for writing acme clients in 
src/cmd/netfiles/acme.[ch].

Russ