Re: [9fans] Show/edit acme snarf buffer

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> > Using either/both acme under Plan 9 and/or Mac OS X via plan9port, is
> > there a "file" that can be opened in acme that displays the current
> > contents of the acme snarf buffer? If so, is there a way to have that
> > window automatically update when the snarf buffer changes? Basically,
> > I'm wondering if there is a way to duplicate the functionality that
> > was generally present in old Macintosh text editors under the show
> > clipboard command. Finally, if this functionality is available, would
> > it be possible that by editing the snarf buffer window to edit the
> > contents of the snarf buffer itself (as was possible in Nisus's old
> > editor QUED/M)?
>
> isn't there a snarf file in the filesystem served bu rio?

it doesn't have the properties the op requested.  a read at eof doesn't
hang until the contents of the file have changed.

- erik