On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:14:34 +0800 Roy Tam <roy...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sat Jun 16 08:47:05 PDT 2012 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:20:11 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > > > >> Then there would be a toy I'm calling toyboxes. > > > >Hmm, seems toybox does not like toy names that partially match the > >names of other toys. Every time I try to use "toyboxes", it finds > >"toybox" instead. > > why not use "boxes" as the name?
That's exactly what I did, and that worked fine. Still, shows there's a problem in toybox. The name "toyboxes" failed, coz it got confused with "toybox", the name "boxes" worked. I can't think off the top of my head of any other cases where a command we might want to support has it's name being a subset of the name of some other command we might want to support, but it could happen. > maybe we can have a simplified GNU SCREEN with it? ;-) Does GNU own screen? Careful with such assumptions around here. I do have a note on my design docs that it might be possible to implement something like screen or tmux, and a warning not to turn into curses or twin. lol The design goal is to support things like full screen text viewers, editors, and midnight commander. Being a generalised full screen text UI library is out of scope. Side by side boxes, status lines, menus, scrolling text, text editing, these things are in scope. A centred popup widget for selecting options and entering command parameters is borderline in scope, I'm gonna see if I can leave it out at first. Arbitrary text "windows" that you can drag around with the mouse, cacalib support, these things are out of scope. Screen and tmux do happen to fall within the scope of what is supported by the library design though. There's a nohup toy, so it might be possible. That's about the limit of my thoughts in how to support screen or tmux. I'm not going out of my way to support them, but it may be possible anyway. So far the code has ended up being a lot simpler than I expected. B-) -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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