Re: [9fans] equality sign in Rc

2017-05-13 Thread Bruce Ellis 
Well fix it! Can't be too hard.

brucee

On 14 May 2017 at 02:53, Charles Forsyth  wrote:

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> On 13 May 2017 at 15:21, trebol  wrote:
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>> No with hyphenation, my friend!
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>
> ahh! that's a little more specific. I usually switch it off so I wouldn't
> have noticed.
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Re: [9fans] equality sign in Rc

2017-05-13 Thread Charles Forsyth 
On 13 May 2017 at 15:21, trebol  wrote:

> No with hyphenation, my friend!


ahh! that's a little more specific. I usually switch it off so I wouldn't
have noticed.

Re: [9fans] equality sign in Rc

2017-05-13 Thread trebol 
No with hyphenation, my friend!

Re: [9fans] equality sign in Rc

2017-05-13 Thread Charles Forsyth 
On 13 May 2017 at 13:36, trebol  wrote:

> Then I used troff to write a paper, and surprise!, there is no utf8
> support.


I'm fairly sure there is in troff.

[9fans] equality sign in Rc

2017-05-13 Thread trebol 
> does anybody have a version of Rc that allows unquoted equality sign?
> 
> having to quote the character get a bit annoying on POSIX systems (plan9port)

You can change the code, I suppose the key file is

rc/lex.c

You can force rc to setting a variable only if = is surrounded by spaces, like 
in sh, but then you'll have a lot of problems in plan9/p9p.

I know what you are talking about.

I like the use of = in rc, but there is too much unix in plan9, and a lot of 
programs are straightforwardly ported. An example is gs, making tests with 
options in rc is a nightmare.

People say that the problem of Plan9's popularity is the differences with unix, 
but for me is the opposite. It try to be different being too much similar.

I remember when I discovered it 4 or 5 years ago. I was so happy with the use 
of utf8 as the system own character coding, I was learning C and I was sick 
with wchars, multibyte, locales and so on in unix. Then I used troff to write a 
paper, and surprise!, there is no utf8 support. And the same with spell and 
other utilities. They were pieces of unix, sewed to the corpse... instead of 
"Plan 9 from Outer Space", some times It feels more like "Frankenstein".

trebol.