Try:
webcookies
webfs
abaco
It should work then.
I think abaco should be made to host its own webcookies/webfs. Why
not? It's this easy:
if ((cookiesproc = fork()) == 0) {
execl(/bin/webcookies, webcookies, 0);
You've also forgotten the yacc file in cc. It still doesn't topple
the chart:
; wc -l /sys/src/cmd/^(cc 8c 8l)^/*.[chy]|grep total
29908 total
What should be compared is a C++ compiler and the associated
libraries. Especially in C++0x! :-P
What is the total of all the compilers,
The GFDL governs documentation. It tries to keep your manuals free-as-
in-freedom. :-) Look at the absolute bottom of any page on Wikipedia.
On Mar 19, 2008, at 3:19 AM, Andrew Simmons wrote:
interested students should perhaps submit their plan 9 gsoc project
proposals to the Hurd. i hear we
It suggests to me that these calls are the lowest level of
communication with the kernel. I once thought that all system calls
could be called by a program :-P
On Mar 22, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Iruata Souza wrote:
On 3/22/08, Pietro Gagliardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That confirmed one
I was tired and I used the wrong words.
On Mar 22, 2008, at 1:32 AM, ron minnich wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Pietro Gagliardi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It suggests to me that these calls are the lowest level of
communication with the kernel. I once thought that all system calls
Okay, so now that I have drawterm working on my Mac, I'd like to have
it working remotely at my school. Which IP addresses should I use
instead of the localhost to connect to my CPU remotely?
On Mar 23, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
Ah yes, I had formatted the arguments wrong
But should echo ignore arguments it doesn't understand (like UNIX
does) or complain (like GNU echo does)? Also note this from the bash
manual:
echo does not interpret -- to mean the end of options.
This is just a matter of the proper behavior to implement echo -- with.
Using two
On Mar 26, 2008, at 4:09 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
values of Δ will give rise to doom!
at least get that one right, please?
You don't get it, do you?
Δ is the symbol for change.
Now do you get it?
CHANGE --- DOOM
Souza wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Pietro Gagliardi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes I know what I quoted. I changed the B to a Delta to represent
change and turned dom to doom. YOU ARE THE TARD IF YOU DID NOT GET
THAT. It now reads CHANGE -- DOOM!
We need to keep echo the same because
I had been thinking of adding a database to Plan 9 for a while.
Here's my design:
The DBMS is a 9P server. Upon mounting, it takes as arguments two files:
- the list of names of records and fields
- the data itself
It then parses the data into virtual files in the location
On Mar 31, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote:
what about:
% dc [0=1] | echo 0 /srv/desk
Does that even do anything? You can't pipe to echo, can you?
The ultimate echo, actually useful, but no one wants it.
NAME
echo: echo arguments
SYNOPSIS
echo [-1abCDEeilmNnOqrtuVvwXx] [-B base] [-c cmd] [-d char] [-f
file] [-L len] [-o file] [-S voice] [-s char] [args...]
DESCRIPTION
echo outputs its arguments. It takes the following
Forgot a bit.
echo -n '-n
'
On Apr 3, 2008, at 6:44 PM, John Floren wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Pietro Gagliardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You don't realize the point. I am agreeing with Kernighan and
Pike: cat -v
is harmful. So is ls -M, or echo -f, or rm -i. I'm
Also realize that Cocoa is written in Objective-C, not C, so you need
to learn a new language to get your hands on it. You CAN write a C
wrapper around the Objective-C (it was originally a C preprocessor),
but I don't think elite Mac programmers would recommend it.
On Apr 8, 2008, at 10:32
I have one, but unfortunately, Broadcom hardware (remember when I
first joined 9fans)?
On Apr 17, 2008, at 5:22 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
On Thu Apr 17 17:19:06 EDT 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
rEFIT fails me. Back to waiting.
you know, you could get a pc.
- erik
The following was taken from a log of a run of Plan 9 on QEMU on
Leopard. When Venti told me it would archive some blocks, this is what
happened:
Apr 19 21:09:11 ool-18b97500 [0x0-0x44d44d].ch.kberg.q[9530]: sb16:
attempt to change DMA 8bit 32(1), 16bit 6(5) (val=0x40)
and everything
Hello. Someone just told me the fault on why QEMU crashes every time I
boot Plan 9 -- venti. With a fossil only system, everything worked
without a hitch -- until that corrupt root entry fiasco which cost me
a book I was writing, a troff preprocessor (eg, for graphing
equations), my
, Bruce Ellis wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Pietro Gagliardi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I'm trying to recover my files from the fossil+venti system
I have. I
changed the configuration to read
fsys oldfs config /dev/sdC1/fossil
fsys oldfs open -AWPVr
srv fossil
Hello. I use the following to get to drawterm in OS X:
drawterm-osx-intel -c 'tcp!127.0.0.1!17010' -a 'tcp!127.0.0.1!2567' -
s 'tcp!127.0.0.1!5356' -u pietro
It works nicely on Tiger, but on Leopard, I got
cpu: can't dial tcp!127.0.0.1!17010: Connection refused
goodbye
Now
Hello. I started working on Bentley, a new programming language. This
was inspired by and is based on the pseudocode in Jon Bentley's
Programming Pearls - a column for the CACM that became a book. The
compiler generates Assembly in a temporary file, then calls up the
assembler to make the
On May 1, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
Indentation by white space is a very bad idea in my experience.
Superficially attractive but ultimately very dangerous. I once spent a
couple of days tracking down a bug caused by a source-to-source code
tool that broke a major program because the
On May 1, 2008, at 9:12 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote:
Put it this way: It's unwise to make program structure depend on
invisible characters.
a white space is something hard to find, some time ago I helped a
friend
who couldn't get a mkfile working, he got something like:
mk: mkfile:6:
On May 1, 2008, at 9:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
one does
if key = 'c' then
scanline
runcommand
else
generate(key)
assemble(key)
This is similar to Python, and prevents
On May 2, 2008, at 6:14 AM, Anant Narayanan wrote:
Hi,
Is there a tool available which can convert plan 9 a.out executables
to plan 9 assembly code? I'd like to know how the C compiler stores
arguments for a system call on the stack for x86.
8c -S does not help, since all it displays
On May 3, 2008, at 6:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
factotum comes from the Charles Bukowski's book?
i thought the reference was older
minooka; dict
*/factotum/
1 Fac*totum
*1
Fac*totum (făk*tōtŭm), n.; pl. Factotums (- tŭmz). [L., do
s/one/two/ # don't forget c++
On May 4, 2008, at 8:18 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote:
I think the quote of the day was We already support one C-like
language.
brucee
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why did alef die, or are some of you
still using
On May 7, 2008, at 5:24 AM, Matt Erickson wrote:
On 2008-05-02, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] pondered onto
the tubes:
one does
if key = 'c' then
scanline
runcommand
else
generate(key)
A new Bentley is up. This defines hopefully all of the bitwise
operators I will support:
| ^ ~ (as in C)
@ @ (roll left and roll right, also called circular shift)
I'm still working on the base language, getting type checking working
and allowing logical AND, OR, XOR,
Hello. The just-updated ms macro set for troff has a problem: if you
use .P1 and .P2, you have an .IP followed by an .RE, which winds up
doing nothing, so the indent stays. Try it out.
.PP
The following...
.P1
abc()
{
def;
}
Everyone that uses .P1 has to do yesterday then.
On May 13, 2008, at 4:59 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
yesterday(1)
yesterday(1) all my 9trouble seemed so vlong away ...
- erik
Hello. Does anyone know what happened to http://www.bell-labs.com/blbooks.html
and what the list there is? Thanks.
I believe that was the same problem I had. Compare it to /n/sources/
contrib/pietro/fgbX11.errors.
On May 17, 2008, at 6:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get, from /n/sources:
tar: can't open ape/X11/fonts/encodings/large/big5.eten-0.enc.gz:
'big5.eten-0.enc.gz' permission denied
tar:
Hello. I'm trying to switch from GCC/NASM to the good old Plan 9 tools
to get a simple kernel I'm writing compiled and working with 9load
(which fortunately is Multiboot-compliant). But there is one file - an
8a-ized hand-me-down interrupt service routine array - that is causing
problems.
You mean ##? Okay, but since 8a doesn't have an option to issue the
standard C preprocessor (cpp(1) - 8c has -p), I'll see what I can do.
On May 17, 2008, at 9:44 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
Hello. I'm trying to switch from GCC/NASM to the good old Plan 9
tools
to get a simple kernel I'm
/pietro/pgos.err
And yes, I plan to use the a.out(6). But now it just takes raw binary.
On May 17, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
You mean ##? Okay, but since 8a doesn't have an option to issue the
standard C preprocessor (cpp(1) - 8c has -p), I'll see what I can do.
On May 17, 2008
% cd /mnt/wiki/
% ls | grep '^web_server$'
web_server
% cd web_server
Can't cd web_server: 'web_server' file does not exist
Why is this happening? My Mac OS X Safari reports the same thing.
- Pietro
He has been MIA since March 11, and his last cat-v blog update was
from around that time. Isn't he supposed to be taking care of some
things, like the Contrib Index page of the wiki? I just modified his
contrindx and updated it myself.
No, I wasn't around that time :-) But I was looking for the Hello
World X11 paper a while back, which was pre-website USENIX. But on the
USENIX website it seems that you can purchase papers from before
1991(?). Perhaps they had a paper?
On May 27, 2008, at 6:02 PM, ron minnich wrote:
OK,
Have you done a port of Newsqueak to Plan 9? I tried using Rob's
original code (and failed, albeit not very miserably).
What do you mean by monte carlo - the solitaire? Perhaps a look at
the concept would be helpful.
On May 30, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
i need to build a
If you are conforming to style(6), awk can generate stub functions
quite easily.
# turns lines of the form
# valid type name
# name ( argument-list )
# into
# valid type name
# stub_ ## name
Hello. I decided to teach myself the 33 libraries of Plan 9 (even
those that I partially know), and I started with libthread, Sape's
implementation of Newsqueak-esque threads in C.
One of Rob's favorite programs is Doug's Newsqueak Sieve of
Eratosthenes. It's a simple Newsqueak program
showed me how to count simple algorithms.
I'm not so sure this is very simple at first glance.
On Jun 6, 2008, at 5:55 AM, Martin Neubauer wrote:
Very amusing. However, I'm not sure what you are trying to tell us,
besides
that you haven't understood what the O(...) means.
* Pietro Gagliardi
The program spawns n + 2 threads. sieve and counter are only spawned
once, but filter is spawned for every prime number.
With Roger's command line, primes took me about 91 seconds - possibly
because it isn't looking for a specific end. primes 1 2837711 takes 43
seconds.
Up next: what
Hello. Just out of curiosity, does anyone have the second or third
edition programmer's manuals? I found the first edition on uriel's
docs site. Thanks.
of the same
stuff.
If anyone has any papers that are not included in any of the existing
collections I would love to get a copy.
uriel
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Pietro Gagliardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello. Just out of curiosity, does anyone have the second or third
edition
programmer's
Hello.
My next experiment in learning libraries, as well as my next project,
is a reimplementation of the first and second edition raster graphics
manipulation tools. These use libmemdraw, which provides Memimage.
Since I only have a working first edition manual, the program I will
On Jun 11, 2008, at 11:46 PM, Russ Cox wrote:
The first edition specified the arguments to -o as two values -
this cannot be done
due to idiosyncrasies with args(2).
case 'o':
arg1 = EARGF(usage());
arg2 = EARGF(usage());
break;
russ
According to
9fs dump
command /n/dump//mmdd/absolutepathtofile
- year
mmdd - month and date
On Jun 13, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Hi folks,
is there any command line tool for reading and writing files
on venti ?
The venti/read and venti/write commands just support single blocks.
On Jun 15, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Aha. But this still does not terminate the vacfs, right ?
Once you kill the script, you also kill the processes it created -
that's what process groups are, remember?
Please read The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9 and the rfork man page
Doesn't matter. Process groups are process groups on any Unix clone.
If it's daemons you're dealing with, then it leaves the scope of this
room. If it's Windows, you're out of luck.
On Jun 15, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* Pietro Gagliardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 15
Hello. I'm trying to get drawterm to work in Leopard again. Here is my
command line:
drawterm-osx-intel -c 'tcp!127.0.0.1!17010' -a 'tcp!127.0.0.1!2567' -
s 'tcp!127.0.0.1!5356' -u pietro
The problem was that it told me the connection refused. I told the
firewall to open ports 17010,
All the ports except the guard and ticket (56[67]) work, and AS is
still botched, so I believe AS has to do with one of those two (most
likely ticket. This port problem might have to do with OS X. I'll ask
around.
On Jun 19, 2008, at 2:50 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
Hello. I'm trying to get
On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Uriel wrote:
Drawterm everywhere needs to die and be replaced with inferno. The
duplication of bug fixes and efforts is pointless.
I don't believe Inferno can interface with Plan 9 from Bell Labs, can
it? And Inferno can't interface with the native
On Jun 25, 2008, at 6:37 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
Isn't that automatically done if I update daily? Or is the active
venti hooked to the venticonf?
since you're booting from venti root, venti and fossil
are built into the kernel. so you need to update your
kernel. this is not done
On Jun 27, 2008, at 1:39 PM, ron minnich wrote:
This is really sweet. I think we've got an easy way to show people
Plan 9 now.
I agree: a self-contained 9 could really solve all my QEMU worries and
boot CD nonsense! (No mouse detection, kbd init failed x infinity,
inverse video - sorry)
On Jun 27, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
i've not had a chance to look through the sources. is a windows port
feasible?
If you call translating the X API to Win32 or C++ .NET feasible, then
yes! I'm struggling to Cocoa-ize it. It seems like a much easier job
than with drawterm.
Bentley: /n/sources/contrib/pietro/bentley.bundle
Bentley profiler output (on test program in bundle): /n/sources/
contrib/pietro/bentley.profout
It demonstrates two deficiencies of the prof program as is:
- line 312 should be modified to add a space after the first format,
so that
Yes. It's a single line of code:
exec rc -c '{ newns; rio }'
On Jun 28, 2008, at 1:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've not had a chance to look through the sources. is a windows port
feasible?
I haven't looked at anything at all, but I've also never seen such a
happy reception on
scratch that - no newns. (what is it's name?)
On Jun 28, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
Yes. It's a single line of code:
exec rc -c '{ newns; rio }'
On Jun 28, 2008, at 1:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've not had a chance to look through the sources. is a windows
Running the new native 9vx (which I was almost done doing myself, had
it not been for that missing file):
The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation
functionality safely. You MUST exec().
Break on
On Jun 29, 2008, at 7:32 AM, Fernan Bolando wrote:
/* int (*fputs)P((char *s, FILE *p)); */
/* sizet (*fwrite)P((char *s, sizet siz, sizet num, FILE *p)); */
Try uncommenting those two lines.
Hello. I have a simple push macro for a stack machine interpreter. It
looks like this:
#define push(s) ((void)(((stackptr = (stack + stacksize)) ?
growstack() : (void)0), (*stackptr++ = errcheck(s
Does this boggle the mind? It's very simple: it checks for stack
overflow and makes
I forgot to mention this is with the -w option; I found that turning
it off also hid warnings I wanted to keep.
On Jun 29, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
Hello. I have a simple push macro for a stack machine interpreter.
It looks like this:
#define push(s) ((void)(((stackptr
This new release works. Thanks! Now to take my fossil/venti off QEMU
and onto OS X.
On Jun 29, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Russ Cox wrote:
I have not bothered to create a new package,
but there is a new binary available for OS X:
hget -o 9vx.OSX.gz http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rsc/9vx.OSX.gz
People do acknowledge the new free systems. Unfortunately, RMS got
them off it in a microsecond when 3e came out:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/plan-nine.html
And I don't believe the Note at the top will change people's minds.
And even if we do manage to make people remember Plan 9, we live
- Modify the kernel (it is based on Unix - even Microsoft says so)
- Learn how Cygwin does it
- Don't use real processes, like in Inferno
On Jun 30, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Steve Simon wrote:
Apparently, after a fork, a child retains it's parent's
pid in _tos-pid.
I think this is at the root of
On Jun 30, 2008, at 9:48 AM, bblochl wrote:
Pietro Gagliardi schrieb:
If people say Plan 9 is too hard to use they will allocate blame
to Rob Pike's rio before reading his tirade on other windowing
systems (which you can find at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/88/1-07.ps.gz
RMS has the power to turn people away from bad technology. Remember
that now.
On Jun 30, 2008, at 9:46 AM, bblochl wrote:
Pietro Gagliardi schrieb:
People do acknowledge the new free systems. Unfortunately, RMS got
them off it in a microsecond when 3e came out:
http://www.gnu.org
On Jun 30, 2008, at 10:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are we talking about the same thing? Pietro's link is for an old
paper by Rob Pike talking about the mux windowing system. There
aren't really any examples.
Much of the paper still applies to rio. From mux to rio few changes
were
On Jun 30, 2008, at 1:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, before I set quill to parchment (or fingers to keyboard as may
be), has anyone else started something like this?
I was planning on doing something of the sort...
On Jun 30, 2008, at 5:46 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
this guide was
Hello. I found a few fonts from /lib/font (Courier, for aesthetic
reasons, and erik's vera, for its complete Unicode conformance) that
I'd like to make available to troff. Is there any way to do this? I'll
name the files myself (Other-Courier and Bitstream-Vera, perhaps).
Thanks.
On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eric, I don't know what this audio thing you CS/CE type researchers
are using but us lowlifes just need Firefox and Excel before we can
use Plan 9. I'm afraid that until you can provide those, Joe Public
will never use Plan 9 and it will be
If only we transmitted messages by voice. It's much easier to
understand the sarcastic nature. (And you need to get me in a good
mood.)
On Jul 1, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
(But sarcasm seems to escape you :-))
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Pietro Gagliardi [EMAIL PROTECTED
See patch(1) for instructions on contributing a patch.
man -t patch | page
On Jul 6, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Antonin Vecera wrote:
Hello all,
I don't know how to submit a patch, so I try to do it this way...
I have installed Plan 9 in WMware Player and every time when I start
the
On Jul 6, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Antonin Vecera wrote:
Hello all,
can somebody help me with replica/pull ...
I made some changes to /rc/bin/termrc . After that I decided to move
my changes to /rc/bin/termrc.local and restore termrc . I did:
replica/pull -v -s rc/bin/termrc
On Jul 6, 2008, at 3:04 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
See patch(1) for instructions on contributing a patch.
man -t patch | page
which is equivalent to
man -p patch
- erik
The following, however, are not:
man -t 2 open pipe | page
man -p 2 open pipe
The
C89 does have such a requirement, in two places:
Section 5.1.2.3:
...
- The input and output dynamics of interactive devices shall take
place as specified in 7.9.3. ... or line-buffered input appear as soon
as possible, to ensure that prompting messages actually appear prior
to a program
1) Did you update them for the 4th edition kernel, or are they still
3rd edition?
2) Does it include a source code listing?
3) Is it digital or hard print?
4) Is it available in America for USD?
Otherwise, cool!
On Jul 11, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote:
They are edited by
Just a bit of humor:
COMPUTER
ME
% cd troff
% file *
advp9prog:directory yes (old attempt at plan 9 programmer's
guide)
algoawk:directory
9fat:
cp /sys/lib/kbmap/uk /n/9fat
try again with kbmap=uk and reboot.
On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Robert Hibberdine wrote:
Thanks for reply.
putting kbmap=uk into plan9.ini
gives a message
boot: can't open kbd map: 'uk' file does not exist.
So I triedkbmap=/sys/lib//kbmap/uk
The ISO I got that was supposed to work natively on an iMac had:
- keyboard error messages (but I think it worked)
- no working mouse
- inverse video
But good luck on a MacBook!
On Jul 16, 2008, at 10:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I now have a more-or-less unused MacBook. I'm
considering
Intel - there is no prebuilt PPC binary. That ELCR point is what made
me get QEMU in the first place. You can find the ISO somewhere in /n/
sources/contrib. du and you can't miss it; it was made by someone else
on the list.
On Jul 16, 2008, at 10:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This was
On Jul 17, 2008, at 8:28 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
i suppose you could also type
ctl+m
For viewing with page, the simplest way is to add a line of the form
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 w h
where the width and height are in pixels (multiply by 72) before the
second line of the PostScript output (dpost) and give page the -b
option.
On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bblochi - you failed to solve his problem. Instead you spat out an
insane commentary on how to compile C programs, and the following both
show his problem and show he figured out how to do it:
On Jul 23, 2008, at 5:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
did not result in it being found (nor 8c
On Jul 24, 2008, at 10:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks! You should forward your friendly comments to Michael A.
Covington. May be he will correct his Newbie`s guide?
I thought those were YOUR words, not his.
All right, let's stop this now. I had just waken up and was a bit
tired when I wrote that. But I had a reason: you did not answer the
question of why the system didn't have an 8c.
sorry.
On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:11 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
salad fork. Locks, mutexes, the synchronized keyword; all of these
things can strike fear into the heart of a green developer. Most
That's what you get for using Java.
On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm unable to
Hello. Is there an alternative to the macros in this header? My
program uses some of them (DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX, DBL_EPSILON), and
including ape/float.h yields name clashes. Thanks.
On Aug 8, 2008, at 4:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides the paper, manual, and language tutorial, is there anything
else I should read to help me learn how to use sam? Would any
background reading on Plan 9, ed, or anything else be helpful? Thanks.
You're pretty much set with those
On Aug 19, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Wendell xe wrote:
01. Toggle on/off line wrapping
02. Toggle on/off EOL character display
03. Display line numbers
04. Display ruler
05. Rectangluar block selection
06. Search and replace with confirmation at each item
07. Automatic insertion of spaces for tabs
08.
On Aug 19, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Eris Discordia wrote:
Plan 9 obeys the UNIX way: tools that make jobs simpler.
A UNIX better than UNIX? I thought that was just the thing 9people
claimed to be past. Didn't I hear someone saying, Plan 9 is not
UNIX? Ahem... GNU's Not UNIX, too, nah?
No,
Geoff! Why not let Eris read your paper on Why Plan 9 Matters?
Just a few other bits of relevance to the original topic:
On Aug 19, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Wendell xe wrote:
07. Automatic insertion of spaces for tabs
style(6) says not to convert tabs to spaces.
11. Bookmarks
If you know what text the bookmark will point to, make a comment on
the line
As will I. This thread has become pointless. I'm done attacking this
guy. If you need me, I'll be making good programs in Plan 9 or
watching stuff in iTunes.
On Aug 20, 2008, at 4:16 AM, Steve Simon wrote:
Sorry for feeding the troll, I will shut up.
-Steve
I'd like to see Plan 9 being run on a portable device, and up until
now I thought the only ways were to get an iPAQ (but are newer models
compatible?) or to port 9vx to the iPhone (but does Apple's license
allow that?). Can we use this board to make an alternative - the new
bitsy? This
On Sep 12, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Eris Discordia wrote:
completely 'unencumbered' by POSIX.
s/completely/almost /
Pietro
On Oct 8, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
Hello,
I'd expect
window -hide rc -c 'label a_name; tail -f some_file'
would create a new hidden window (and so it does), run the tail
command (and so it does) and set the name for the hidden window to
a_name.
The last thing seems to not
On Oct 8, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
So, if I continuously want to add and remove functions within one
shell (running hypothetically forever), do I have to 'manually'
delete those empty left-behind files? --- that is, not only use
fn name_that_I _don't_need
but also
rm
How?
On Oct 12, 2008, at 6:00 AM, hiro wrote:
I didn't get your mail, can't read it
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