On Thu, 17 May 2012 07:41:28 -0800 Jack Johnson <knapj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Quick tangent, is there anyone out there whose favorite environment is > non-native? Maybe 9vx or plan9ports on specific hardware? Your secret > sam port to Windows 8's Metro UI? > > For all I know, plan9ports full screen on a MacBook Air is Glenda's > Elysian field. Maybe something dual-screen with Chrome on the next > monitor over. I know someone out there has a setup they've nestled > into and are slightly cringing at the thought of his or her next > machine or OS transition because right now life is good. Heheh... I wouldn't say no to a MacBook Air but between 9vx and drawterm, p9p is fast fading from my radar. I only use 9term any more and that for the occasional locate or find command, or for git. Sometimes I also sudo ed, but no more often than I sudo vi in an xterm. I once found p9p acme run as root to be a great idea for configuring a Linux system but there was a bug with win which reams the Linux pty subsystem. I should roleplay less and get more involved with bug-fixing and code, but I keep saying that. Also what Jack said. Besides that, my Elysian field has namespaces. I love running one acme (with plumber) per task, which afaik you can't do in p9p. It's not quite the perfection of convenience, but anything I think of to improve on it brings other inconveniences mostly related to window management. The result is when I want to edit something non-root in Linux I typically do so from drawterm. If it's root-owned and too large a change for ed, I either sudo cp or (more usually) temporarily chown it. As for usability, drawterm is a little buggy. It doesn't really like me running a web browser and sometimes gets in a state where what's visible doesn't correspond to what menus are appearing, but it hasn't done that since I started shutting down the Linux box (and thus drawterm) every day. Come to think of it 9vx actually gave me fewer problems, but I never really tried running a web browser in it. Nothing else in Plan 9 allocates such a large number of images as mothra and abaco, afaik. I use abaco all the time for my roleplaying, btw, I like it. It handles Simple Machines forums quite nicely, and most of my comics too.
