From: Castor Fu <castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU>
To: arnold@cc.gatech.edu (Arnold Robbins)
Cc: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: yet another creeping feature suggestion
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 11:05:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199401261605.IAA20920@drizzle.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199401261533.KAA05176@penfold.cc.gatech.edu> from "Arnold Robbins" at Jan 26, 94 10:33:03 am
Arnold Robbins (sp?) says
>
> The discussion about sam features and alternate samterms brings to mind
> the "feature" I'd really like to see in samterm, which is some way to
> add things to the button 3 menu. In particular, I'd like to be able to
> add some way to send my own strings at the sam command window. This comes
> up most often when I'm hacking text, and I'd love to be able to use a
> menu item to send ``|fmt'' at the command window.
>
> P.S. And no, it should not be done as X resources! Gack. A .samtermrc
> suits me fine.
>
Great. . . Seriously, while X-windows resource formats can be ugly, I
am not convinced that they have to be worse than learning yet another
startup file format.
Perhaps the correct solution for those wanting more "customization"
would be to build a samterm interface to tcl/Tk. Then the interface
code would be in a format that at least some people could easily
modify.
-castor
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-01-26 15:33 Arnold Robbins
1994-01-26 16:05 ` Castor Fu [this message]
1994-01-26 16:05 Pete Fenelon
1994-01-26 16:29 Arnold Robbins
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