Disclaimer:
Please don't take me the wrong way, I spent a large portion of today
reading the Plan 9 papers and the descriptions behind sam and rc, as
well as various man pages. I guess I didn't think to look in the
window(1) man page for the answers to my question was because i
thought this would be implemented in rc than in rio (basically
because that's how its done in unix). I credit this blunder to still
having a very unixish perception of Plan 9.
I knew about mouse-chording/send from reading doc on Acme, but I
didn't realize it was also used in rio. Once I become more familiar
with this interface I can see myself liking it a lot. As for now I'm
still grumpy when I have to remove my hands from the home position on
the keyboard, but i know that new ideas and innovation require change
and challenge to old de factos and standards.
Thanks for your patience and immediate replies!
Rian Hunter
On Nov 3, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Uriel wrote:
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:14:29PM -0500, John Floren wrote:
As for command history, you are expected to
find the previous command in your rc window, edit it, copy it,
paste it
to the prompt, and then run it. This is obviously more efficient
than
hitting the "up" arrow.
No need to copy/paste(and if you do, do it mouse-chording), you can
use
"Send" directly.
Edit any line in your window, double click at the start or end of the
line to select it, and then Middle-click->Send; is a very common and
useful idiom(note that in the default profile your shell prompt is
defined as a NOP function precisely for this).
This are all FAQs, I think for the most part are well documented in
the
papers, man pages and the Wiki; and of course lots of material and in
the 9fans archives.
The Plan 9 community can be friendly or harsh, but reading the docs is
always well worth the time.
uriel
