[dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
Hello everyone,
Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic
implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also
'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached a point where I can show that
piece of software to you.
It currently supports the tar operations c, t and x (which makes it a bit more
useful than sltar) and the options -f, -C, -v, -z and -j (for decompression
only). Since the Go standard library already comes with implementations of the
gzip and bzip2 algorithms, no external binaries for compression/decompression
are necessary.
You can find the current source code here:
https://github.com/akrennmair/rat
Feedback and patches are welcome.
Best regards,
Andreas
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
On 2012-11-06, at 12:00, Andreas Krennmair wrote: It currently supports the tar operations c, t and x (which makes it a bit more useful than sltar) and the options -f, -C, -v, -z and -j (for decompression only). Cool. Did you consider auto detecting compression from file name and/or content? (Because lazyness is good, and I've grown accustomed to; tar cf stuff.tbz ~/stuff) -Truls
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
Greetings.
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at wrote:
Hello everyone,
Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic
implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also
'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached a point where I can show that
piece of software to you.
Go is never simple. It’s like proposing a Python project here to be
»suckless«.
Out of frustration and boredom I looked up the suckless.org page and
found [0]. Please contribute there instead of creating megabytes of bi‐
naries in prototyping languages.
Sincerely,
Christoph Lohmann
[0] https://github.com/Gottox/sltar
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
* Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net [2012-11-06 16:20]:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at wrote:
Hello everyone,
Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic
implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also
'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached a point where I can show that
piece of software to you.
Go is never simple. It’s like proposing a Python project here to be
»suckless«.
b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_;
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
Greetings.
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:06 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at wrote:
* Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net [2012-11-06 16:20]:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at
wrote:
Hello everyone,
Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic
implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also
'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached a point where I can show that
piece of software to you.
Go is never simple. It’s like proposing a Python project here to be
»suckless«.
b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_;
No. There was only one person pretending go to be suckless because of
its pseudo Plan 9 heritage.
Sincerely,
Christoph Lohmann
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
On 6 November 2012 11:00, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote:
Greetings.
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:06 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at
wrote:
* Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net [2012-11-06 16:20]:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at
wrote:
Hello everyone,
Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic
implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but
also
'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached a point where I can
show that
piece of software to you.
Go is never simple. It’s like proposing a Python project here to be
»suckless«.
b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_;
No. There was only one person pretending go to be suckless because of
its pseudo Plan 9 heritage.
Sincerely,
Christoph Lohmann
Uriel?
[dev] [st] patch to support mouse wheel scrolling
Gentlemen,
Because, unfortunately, you sometimes have a mouse in your hand...
Here's a patch to add support for buttons 4 and 5 on your mouse (usually
the scroll wheel). Like the keyboard bindings in conf.def.h, you can
choose strings to write to the tty upon pressing these buttons (well,
upon scrolling the wheel, usually).
The default values that I gave them (\031 and \005) will scroll in
less (and man pages, of course), in screen's copy mode, and in
vim...anything that uses CTRL-Y and CTRL-E to scroll. Obviously these
won't work for Emacs users; for them I would recommend setting them to
\033[A and \033[B, which will move the cursor one line at a time,
eventually scrolling when it reaches the edge of the terminal.
Enjoy,
-brandon
diff -r 19d11014bc63 config.def.h
--- a/config.def.h Mon Nov 05 04:02:20 2012 +0100
+++ b/config.def.h Tue Nov 06 19:37:50 2012 +0100
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@
{ XK_F12, XK_NO_MOD, \033[24~ },
};
+/* Mouse scrollwheel functions */
+static char button4[] = \031;
+static char button5[] = \005;
+
/* Internal shortcuts. */
#define MODKEY Mod1Mask
diff -r 19d11014bc63 st.c
--- a/st.c Mon Nov 05 04:02:20 2012 +0100
+++ b/st.c Tue Nov 06 19:37:50 2012 +0100
@@ -673,6 +673,10 @@
sel.mode = 1;
sel.ex = sel.bx = x2col(e-xbutton.x);
sel.ey = sel.by = y2row(e-xbutton.y);
+ } else if(e-xbutton.button == Button4) {
+ ttywrite(button4, strlen(button4));
+ } else if(e-xbutton.button == Button5) {
+ ttywrite(button5, strlen(button5));
}
}
Re: [dev] [st] line drawing?
I just upgraded my st install to latest tip, and now all the line drawing characters (such as in mutt) are a lowercase 'd'. This seems suboptimal. Older st versions had stuff in config.h for configuring these, but that seems gone now. I just have tested it and it seems work for me. What locale are you using?
Re: [dev] [st] patch to support mouse wheel scrolling
You're not saying that emacs sucks right? I couldn't resist... On Nov 6, 2012 1:51 PM, Brandon Invergo bran...@invergo.net wrote: Gentlemen, Because, unfortunately, you sometimes have a mouse in your hand... Here's a patch to add support for buttons 4 and 5 on your mouse (usually the scroll wheel). Like the keyboard bindings in conf.def.h, you can choose strings to write to the tty upon pressing these buttons (well, upon scrolling the wheel, usually). The default values that I gave them (\031 and \005) will scroll in less (and man pages, of course), in screen's copy mode, and in vim...anything that uses CTRL-Y and CTRL-E to scroll. Obviously these won't work for Emacs users; for them I would recommend setting them to \033[A and \033[B, which will move the cursor one line at a time, eventually scrolling when it reaches the edge of the terminal. Enjoy, -brandon
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
On 7 November 2012 03:00, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_; No. There was only one person pretending go to be suckless because of its pseudo Plan 9 heritage. Which languages qualify as suckless? Cheers, Alex
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
On 7 November 2012 09:58, Alex Hutton highspeed...@gmail.com wrote: Which languages qualify as suckless? Have you not noticed http://hg.suckless.org/ ?
Re: [dev] I don't want to live on this planet anymore
In other words, It's a big difference between the number of lines for a software and the understanding of the fonction and the operations, and I think it's the point. The Suckless meaning, in this perspective, to be easily accessible to the understanding of anybody, like the principle of unix. Sébastien Lacombe On 2012-11-06, à 20:43:56 -0500, Luis Anaya wrote : Back in the '90s many companies bragged about the thousands and thousands of lines of code in X or Y program. You seldom see those nowadays being that announcing the lines of codes is equivalent of announcing how much bloat there is in their code. Honestly, a good program does not have to be large, but complete (or meet requirements) and be useful. One thing is for sure, I bet that in his youth, this professor never participated in the one line program in BASIC competition that were common the days of yore. :) -- Luis Anaya papo anaya aroba hot mail punto com Do not use 100 words if you can say it in 10 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
C++ Java. On Nov 7, 2012 2:58 AM, Alex Hutton highspeed...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 November 2012 03:00, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_; No. There was only one person pretending go to be suckless because of its pseudo Plan 9 heritage. Which languages qualify as suckless? Cheers, Alex
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
Which languages qualify as suckless? Only Brainfuck. Anything more is superfluous.
Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar
Obviously C. Also you have to love Xlib, GTK+ and vintage console terminals. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Alex Hutton highspeed...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 November 2012 03:00, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_; No. There was only one person pretending go to be suckless because of its pseudo Plan 9 heritage. Which languages qualify as suckless? Cheers, Alex
Re: [dev] [st] line drawing?
If I switch to Liberation Mono it works. This is a pretty serious regression, since I used to be able to use whatever font I wanted without issue. It is a problem related to the switch to Xft. It impossible a font has all the unicode glyphs, so if the font fails in a glyph you have a problem. It is not clear for us how other terminals fix this problem, but maybe we should add this issue to the TODO list.
