Re: [9front] drawterm lib configuration

[Romano <me+unobe@fallglow.com>]

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Thanks for the feedback, moody. My inline explanations below.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024, at 3:05 PM, Jacob Moody wrote:
> On 8/27/24 13:40, Romano wrote:
>> I use drawterm from different OSes to connect to my
>> 9front systems and noticed that there's a generic
>> pattern that I usually take in modifying my lib/profile
>> for different clients that I'm drawterm'ing from.
>> I also noticed that the newuser(1) man page's
>> presentation of what is generated for lib/profile was
>> out-dated and not all architectures had underlying 'bin'
>> directories created for the user. So I figured I'd take
>> a stab at updating newuser(1) and its man page to have
>> newuser also create a lib/drawterm directory, with
>> lib/drawterm/default being the corresponding profile for
>> when someone drawterm's in to the system. Here's a
>> link to my attempt in case anyone finds it useful:
>> 
>> http://only9fans.com/unobe/patches/4ac3a0224ed9d54818f858fba69c8e94f38f2c12/9front/2235c398fa9e7b48e0c84cda05c6994a14736e55.patch/raw
>
> I know this isn't a request to merge this in to 9front, but I still 
> wanted to comment on some things I noticed in your patch.
> The whole lib/drawterm/* thing doesn't seem like it would be too useful 
> to me personally in general.

It helps me setup my drawterm defaults based on what client I am dialing in from (e.g. work laptop, my wife's laptop, my macbook). I anticipate having more but also I don't assume it's useful for everyone.

> diff c32dabd4853888f62f09a6d3f8e0deed4077b6a7 
> 2235c398fa9e7b48e0c84cda05c6994a14736e55
> --- a/sys/lib/newuser
> +++ b/sys/lib/newuser
> @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
>  #!/bin/rc
> -
>  user=`{cat /dev/user}
>  home=/usr/$user
>  if(test -f $home/lib/profile){
>
> This seems like accidental noise that got in to your patch.

I didn't see a point in the blank line.

>
> @@ -8,10 +7,10 @@
>  }
>  cd $home
>  x='$'
> -mkdir bin bin/rc bin/mips bin/386 bin/amd64 bin/power bin/arm bin/arm64
> -mkdir lib tmp
> +mkdir bin/^('' rc spim arm arm64 amd64 386 power power64 mips)
> +mkdir lib lib/drawterm tmp
>  chmod +t tmp
> -bind -qc /n/other/usr/$user/tmp $home/tmp
> +if(test -d /n/other/usr/$user/tmp) bind -qc /n/other/usr/$user/tmp $home/tmp
>  bind -c $home/tmp /tmp
>  mail -c
>  auth/cron -c
> @@ -22,38 +21,41 @@
>
> You can use mkdir -p instead to clean up these calls, and remove this 
> bin/('') thing.
> It'll read more naturally.

Thanks! I had considered that but didn't know if I wanted to force directory creation and that's why it wasn't done before. So I opted for at least a list expansion.

> @@ -22,38 +21,41 @@
>  font=/lib/font/bit/vga/unicode.font
>  switch($x^service){
>  case terminal
> -	webcookies
> -	webfs
> -	plumber
>  	echo -n accelerated > '#m/mousectl'
>  	echo -n 'res 3' > '#m/mousectl'
>  	prompt=('term% ' '	')
>  	fn term%{ $x^* }
> +	webcookies
> +	webfs
> +	plumber
>  	rio
>
> What does moving this around achieve?

I didn't think it was foolish to have consistency with the other case (cpu) to have those run at the end. I didn't see the point of having them before those other commands.

>  case cpu
> -	bind /mnt/term/dev/cons /dev/cons
> -	bind -q /mnt/term/dev/consctl /dev/consctl
> -	>[2] /dev/null {
> -		cp /dev/sysname /mnt/term/dev/label
> -		if(wsys=`{cat /mnt/term/env/wsys} && ~ $x^#wsys 1) {
> -			wsys=/mnt/term^$x^wsys
> -		}
> -		if not {
> -			wsys=()
> -		}
> -	}
> -	bind -a /mnt/term/dev /dev
> +	# if rcpu or drawterm:
> +	if(test -d /mnt/term/dev){
> +		bind /mnt/term/dev/cons /dev/cons
> +		bind -q /mnt/term/dev/consctl /dev/consctl
> +		>[2] /dev/null {
> +			cp /dev/sysname /mnt/term/dev/label
> +			if(wsys=`{cat /mnt/term/env/wsys} && ~ $x^#wsys 1)
> +				wsys=/mnt/term^$x^wsys
> +			if not
> +				wsys=()
> +		}
> +		bind -a /mnt/term/dev /dev
> +	}
>  	prompt=('cpu% ' '	')
>  	fn cpu%{ $x^* }
> -	if(! test -e /mnt/term/dev/wsys){
> -		# call from drawterm
> -		if(test -e /mnt/term/dev/secstore){
> -			auth/factotum -n
> -			read -m /mnt/term/dev/secstore >/mnt/factotum/ctl
> -			echo >/mnt/term/dev/secstore
> -		}
> -		if not
> -			auth/factotum
>
> The reason this check is written this way is because drawterm will not 
> have a /mnt/term/dev on windows.
> So your first check here will fail with a windows client.

I was surpised by this. It just so happens that the Windows recovery USB stick (which cost $20) for an ideapad I got for $5 came in today. So I installed Windows 10 Home and downloaded drawterm.exe; I see a /mnt/term/dev directory (see the attached screenshot), and as I drawterm'd in, my patch works as I expected. Is it perhaps different for different versions of Windows? Does your drawterm.exe not provide a dev dir?

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