Re: [9fans] tab completion and command history in rc

[Ronald G Minnich]

I don't think that rc and the rio interface and all that are the be-all 
and end-all of interfaces. Neither are X11, Emacs, and bash. It's all a 
work in progress, all the time. There are features from each I miss on 
the other.

On Linux, I find myself trying to mouse into the middle of a window and 
type text; and of course there's all the other Plan 9 bits you don't get 
on Unix that you miss a lot. I pound the keyboard a lot. I go through a 
lot of keyboards. One advantage of buying clusters is you have lots of 
keyboards lying around.

I get really annoyed that up and down arrow act very differently than 
right and left arrow in acme. I get annoyed that acme is focus follows 
mouse, and rio is not (well, andrey built me a rio with focus follows 
mouse for linux, and I love it).  On Plan 9, I still miss command 
history that spans instances of the shell. Sorry, that's not "Plan 9 
PC", but it's my preference.

So, Rian, if there's stuff you find you miss on Plan 9, it may be you 
have not learned a "Plan 9" way to do things, or it may be that Plan 9 
environment is lacking in some way. I think many of us take a guilty 
pleasure in ^F. I know I do. What else might we like from the unix world 
that we don't talk about? It would be interesting to see.

ron