Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-21 Thread dave . l
> Thanks for the info, but the devices encumbered with ioctls are the tricky > ones and even if they can be sorted out I'm sure there are some other traps > out there. Too bad there are no RFS gurus lurking here to offer their wisdom > on remoting devices. I'm no RFS guru, thank deity, but I di

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread errno
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:04:28 AM Jack Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:42 AM, errno wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:20:27 AM Jack Johnson wrote: > >> which is why I find it hard to get hot headed over any of the > >> assertions, but tend toward trusting the research. > > >

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:42 AM, errno wrote: > On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:20:27 AM Jack Johnson wrote: >> which is why I find it hard to get hot headed over any of the assertions, >> but tend toward trusting the research. >> > What research? The rabbit hole is pretty deep, but you could start

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread errno
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:20:27 AM Jack Johnson wrote: > which is why I find it hard to get hot headed over any of the assertions, > but tend toward trusting the research. > What research?

Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-21 Thread rbnsw-plan9
--- On Tue, 21/6/11, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: ... >> Um, does v9fs remote Linux devices? I find it hard to >> imagine it would remote ioctls but it makes sense *nix to >> *nix. >> > > Depends on how you configure it.  There is a nodevmap > option to the v9fs mount which will instruct it to jus

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:48 AM, William Cowan wrote: > Sample tasks at random you say. What is the correct universe to sample > if we wish to substantiate the sort of categorical assertions made on > this thread? Also, familiar vs unfamiliar tasks using familiar vs unfamiliar software. The numbe

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread William Cowan
Iruat?? Souza wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Guilherme Lino wrote: >> better with it... but generally keyboard is much faster on most day tasks, >> people just don't have the patience to learn it >> > Measuring the keyboard versus mouse speed is such a trivial experiment > to repeat.

Re: [9fans] Indent ON for sam?

2011-06-21 Thread Russ Cox
> I have been toying with the editor sam lately, is there anything like > the "Indent ON" command for acme? > > If not, how do people deal with indentation? sam -a

Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-21 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:26 PM, wrote: > > --- On Wed, 8/6/11, I wrote in part: > >> I am old enough to remember RFS the Remote File Sharing >> Protocol on SVR4 that offered access to remote devices, but >> I don't have that and I'm not aware of whether there are any >> distributed file  protoco

[9fans] Indent ON for sam?

2011-06-21 Thread Anh Hai Trinh
Dear 9fans, I have been toying with the editor sam lately, is there anything like the "Indent ON" command for acme? If not, how do people deal with indentation? Peace, aht

Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX]

2011-06-21 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 05:53:25PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > i'm not sure what the hard part is. just front the normal input > function with one that calls chartorune and rejects anything above > codepoint 255. that can't be more than 10 lines of code. > > that way there is no possibilit