Thanks for the additional details. i looked at haiku several years ago (and way back in 98 or 99), but have never done anything but boot it up and click around. Sounds like Pe will be my first stop (my fingers simply refuse to learn vi properly).
Will get back tomorrow evening if i have questions or can provide any details, Tuesday night at the latest. (sent from a mobile device - please excuse brevity, typos, and top-posting) ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net On Apr 27, 2014 8:06 PM, "Joseph Prostko" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Joseph Prostko <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> http://haiku-files.org/haiku/development/ which will work in > >> VirtualBox. Just make sure to use the Intel IPro100 adapter for > > > Great - thanks for the links and mini howto. Bummer there's no emacs :(. > > There is Xemacs and Qemacs out there > (https://bitbucket.org/haikuports/haikuports/src under the app-editors > section), but giving a tutorial on Haikuporter usage to result in a > working binary would probably make you entirely lose interest in > looking into this. ;) Essentially you can get it built/installed, > but there aren't official packages in our repositories yet. Pe (short > for Program Editor) will likely be good enough to get things done, > assuming your keyboard layout isn't too exotic. I use Dvorak, and > basically all of the shortcuts are wrong, due to the way the > keybindings are done. It's on one of our todo lists to fix that one > day... > > A few more things that could cause you headaches if I don't tell you > ahead of time... > > 1.) In Haiku, the present working directory is the first location > searched for in the path. In other words, if you build Fossil and > type `fossil` in that directory, it will run that Fossil, not one you > may have installed elsewhere. This was a "feature" inherited by BeOS, > but it will throw you off if you are used to pretty much any sort of > Linux system. > > 2.) Operations like copy/paste/cut are done differently in Haiku. In > Haiku, Alt is used instead of Ctrl in typical instances you would > expect. So to copy, for instance, you type, Alt-C. I actually prefer > this behavior since copy/pasting in the terminal is less keystrokes, > and I can still use Ctrl-C/Z to kill things in the terminal. Anyway, > if you aren't used to it, it will bug you initially. You can change > the behavior in under the Leaf menu under Preferences -> Keymap -> > File -> Set Modifier Keys. > > >> I could provide you a custom image too that is more complete, but I > >> might not get around to that today. Let me know if you'd rather have > >> me do that. Just keep in mind that the nightly images at the link I > >> shared lack a lot of software, so you may have to use the HaikuDepot > >> app or `pkgman` to get some additional software you may need. > > > > > > It's close to bed time here, so i'll take a look tomorrow after work. > > Okay, I can probably email you a link to a custom image after I build > it later tonight. I will try to include everything you need, but I'm > not sure it's as trivial to do that after the package management > merge. I think I can do it though. I'll also provide some extra hard > disk space, since the VMDK images often don't leave much spare room. > I suppose I can convert to a VDI too, and even maybe have Fossil > already up and running for you, but I would have to try to be sure > that's easily possible. I always run my OS's on bare metal on > different partitions, so I admit I don't mess with VirtualBox much. > Maybe if you're really lucky though, you may find some form of Emacs > on the image too. :) > > Thanks again, and have a great night. > > - joe > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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