Smells like an st patch -- Peter Nagy - To reach a goal one has to enjoy the journey
On May 22, 2018 1:21:13 PM UTC, Adrian Grigore <[email protected]> wrote: >> Maybe a nice thing to have would be to get the terminal emulator to >treat the field and record separator in a special way. So the programs >all output fs and rs, and the terminal emulator uses these characters >to >layout the data in a tabular way. > >There's no terminal that does this, right? > >On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 3:24 AM, Raphaël Proust <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 2018-05-22 00:38, Connor Lane Smith wrote: >>> On 21 May 2018 at 17:12, Adrian Grigore ><[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I'm having problems compiling usul: >>> >>> This is a surprise. Where did you get usul from? >> >> I sent the copy. I use usul regularly so I still have the whole repo >> locally. >> >> >>> >>> I have been wondering lately about resurrecting usul, since 'tabular >>> munging' with Unix utilities without the ability to set $FS and $RS >>> can be really unpleasant, and I've had to do quite a bit of it >>> recently. >>> >>> I did also write a program to complement usul which performs elastic >>> tabbing on its input, the idea being that you end up with a nice >>> tabular view in your terminal. I think ideally you might want 'real' >>> terminal support for it though, as when printing to the tty you >either >>> need to buffer a lot of data (i.e. until a line with no FS), or you >>> need to do crazy tty-rewriting ANSI escapes, which it did support >but >>> is a massive hack. >> >> In what way is the elastic tabbing different from what Plan9's mc(1)? >> >> >> Ciao, >> -- Raphaël >>
