Re: [9fans] How useful is a scroll wheel?

2013-07-02 Thread Joseph Xu
I usually just lurk here, but I didn't want anybody else to go through 3 different mice like I did (HP 3 button mouse, contour mouse, evoluent mouse) before settling on the lenovo scrollpoint mouse. IMHO it's the best option that's abundantly available, reasonably priced, and comfortable to use.

Re: [9fans] assigning acme windows to columns programmatically

2011-01-19 Thread Joseph Xu
Adding this feature turned out to be pretty easy. If anyone else is interested, here's a patch that allows you to write a message of the form col i\n to /n/ctl to move window n to the i th column from the left, starting with 0. diff -r ad2f6f64fbc8 src/cmd/acme/xfid.c --- a/src/cmd/acme/xfid.c

Re: [9fans] assigning acme windows to columns programmatically

2011-01-19 Thread Joseph Xu
Sorry, pretty sure gmail screwed up that inline patch. Attaching instead. patch Description: Binary data

[9fans] assigning acme windows to columns programmatically

2011-01-17 Thread Joseph Xu
Hi: In acme, is it possible to move an existing window into a specific column using its control file interface? I have a script that spawns several windows every run and I'm getting tired of manually rearranging the windows every time. Joseph

Re: [9fans] 3-button mouse

2010-05-04 Thread Joseph Xu
On 05/04/2010 11:18 PM, Russ Cox wrote: A correspondent recently sent me email to ask about where to find a good 3-button mouse for use with plan9port, but the question might equally apply to Plan 9 proper. I was disappointed to find that apparently IBM/Lenovo no longer sells the mouse that

Re: [9fans] wierd behaviour in acme (plan9port)

2010-03-10 Thread Joseph Xu
On 03/10/2010 01:34 PM, lorenzo vegro wrote: hello, I am experiencing quite a strange behaviour with acme in plan9port: whenever I 2-click win in acme, the window actually shows up as it is supposed to, but without any prompt, as if it were an empty file. If I try to send a command within the

Re: [9fans] wierd behaviour in acme (plan9port)

2010-03-10 Thread Joseph Xu
On 3/11/2010 1:19 AM, lorenzo vegro wrote: Thank you, I will look into it. I also noticed that if I run acme as root, win works as expected: is this in any way relevant? -Lorenzo 2010/3/10, Joseph Xujoseph...@gmail.com: On 03/10/2010 01:34 PM, lorenzo vegro wrote: hello, I am experiencing

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

2010-01-22 Thread Joseph Xu
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:08:02PM -0500, Corey Thomasson wrote: On 1/22/2010 12:59 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: Regardless of me having or not having encountered a problem, building the whole list in advance is not really smart and will lead to problems at some point for sure. Thanks R