Re: [dev] [sbase] Defining scope of sbase and ubase

2024-03-09 Thread NRK
> Everything in the quoted part seems personal preference. I've been managing my vim plugins with git submodules via vim's builtin "packadd" directory structure (~/.config/vim/pack/plugins/start/...). And I can tell you that trying to do anything remotely non-trivial with them is simply not a

Re: [dev] reading an epub book with less: adventures in text processing

2024-03-09 Thread Georg Lehner
Hi Greg, On 2024-03-09 15:34, Greg Reagle wrote: I have an epub ebook. It is a novel, but when I get this process working, I want to repeat it for any epub ebook. I want to read it, with formatting (such as underline or italics), with less. I am happy to use any software that exists in the

Re: [dev] reading an epub book with less: adventures in text processing

2024-03-09 Thread Greg Minshall
Greg, thanks for this! for some personal tastes/usage cases, this, using pandoc's `-t` option, might be minor-ly simpler: man --local-file --pager 'less -ir' \ <(pandoc --standalone -t man \ 2015.31233.Arab-Geographers-Knowledge-Of-Southern-India.epub) | less and,

Re: [dev] [sbase] Defining scope of sbase and ubase

2024-03-09 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Sat, 09 Mar 2024 17:28:49 +0100 Elie Le Vaillant wrote: > Страхиња Радић wrote: > > Compiling all programs into one binary is currently an option, and IMHO it > > should remain an option. > > I fully agree. However, the single binary situation should be improved. > > > Great, combine

Re: [dev] [sbase] Defining scope of sbase and ubase

2024-03-09 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 24/03/09 05:28PM, Elie Le Vaillant wrote: > Or is it out-of-scope for us to implement a full-blown shell? I really am > not sure. I think it would be interesting to have "official" suckless versions of all of the mentioned programs, which would at minimum implement their descriptions from

Re: [dev] reading an epub book with less: adventures in text processing

2024-03-09 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 09:34:12AM -0500, Greg Reagle wrote: > I have an epub ebook. It is a novel, but when I get this process working, I > want to repeat it for any epub ebook. > > I want to read it, with formatting (such as underline or italics), with less. > I am happy to use any software

[dev] Re: reading an epub book with less: adventures in text processing

2024-03-09 Thread Greg Reagle
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 9:34 AM, Greg Reagle wrote: > I want to read it, with formatting (such as underline or italics), with > less. Or, I would be satisfied with an ebook reader program (either TUI or GUI is fine) that has the same functionality and keys as less. Of course it can have some

Re: [dev] [sbase] Defining scope of sbase and ubase

2024-03-09 Thread Elie Le Vaillant
Страхиња Радић wrote: > Compiling all programs into one binary is currently an option, and IMHO it > should remain an option. I fully agree. However, the single binary situation should be improved. > Great, combine the two versions of libutil into a single, separate > libutil repository I'm

[dev] reading an epub book with less: adventures in text processing

2024-03-09 Thread Greg Reagle
I have an epub ebook. It is a novel, but when I get this process working, I want to repeat it for any epub ebook. I want to read it, with formatting (such as underline or italics), with less. I am happy to use any software that exists in the process, but I MUST use less in the end to read

[dev] Re: dwm: Maybe a combination of columns and grids?

2024-03-09 Thread Greg Reagle
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, at 2:48 PM, Greg Reagle wrote: > I love the way that the columns patch handles the master area, i.e. the > ability to control its width and number of windows, and that the > windows in the master area take up the full height of the display. In > the stacking area, though,

Re: [dev] [sbase] Defining scope of sbase and ubase

2024-03-09 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 14:53:07 +0100 Страхиња Радић wrote: > On 24/03/09 12:59AM, Mattias Andrée wrote: > > I agree, a single repo (or alternatively making libutil it's own repo) is > > necessary if we want one binary, and I think we do. > > Compiling all programs into one binary is currently an

Re: [dev] [sbase] Defining scope of sbase and ubase

2024-03-09 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 24/03/09 12:59AM, Mattias Andrée wrote: > I agree, a single repo (or alternatively making libutil it's own repo) is > necessary if we want one binary, and I think we do. Compiling all programs into one binary is currently an option, and IMHO it should remain an option. In my own toy distro[1]

Re: [dev] [sbase] Defining scope of sbase and ubase

2024-03-09 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Sat, 09 Mar 2024 12:10:28 +0100 Eolien55 wrote: > Mattias Andrée wrote: > > I think there should be one directory called "portable" containing only > > tools > > from sbase, and one directory called "linux" containing the tools from ubase > > and maybe even symlinks to the tools in

Re: [dev] [sbase] Defining scope of sbase and ubase

2024-03-09 Thread Eolien55
Mattias Andrée wrote: > I think there should be one directory called "portable" containing only tools > from sbase, and one directory called "linux" containing the tools from ubase > and maybe even symlinks to the tools in "portable". This structure would allow > us to add implementations for