2009/3/4 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: > if on the other hand you try to modify the name of a directory > listing frame, the tag line box is not filled. this is a hint > that you're doing something wrong. also there is no Put option. > this is a bigger hint that you're doing something wrong.
not really - +Errors windows fulfil both of those criteria, but Put works fine in those. > the reason that directories behave differently is that in acme > programs are allowed to take over a window. while the directory > listing is built in, it operates on the same principle, and it does > not make sense to write a directory through acme's interface. i agree it doesn't make sense to write a directory, but you can't anyway, even if the interface allowed it, and the resulting error message would be self-expanatory. personally, i think that Put should work on any non-application window, and that re-columnation should only take place if the textual content hasn't been modified by the user. (and probably also that if you change the name of a window to a directory name and do "Get", that it would get a directory listing). but YMMV as always.
