Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-03 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:14:58AM -0700, erik quanstrom wrote: > somehow I thought that was going to be the response, but that's not really > true unless acme has been rewritten on the lower level kbd model. patches > that model also introduces user space kbd control, so good luck using it

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-03 Thread erik quanstrom
somehow I thought that was going to be the response, but that's not really true unless acme has been rewritten on the lower level kbd model. that model also introduces user space kbd control, so good luck using it in the event of panic. - erik On Sep 3, 2015 6:34 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-03 Thread Stanley Lieber
> somehow I thought that was going to be the response gee, erik On Sep 3, 2015, 10:16 AM, at 10:16 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >somehow I thought that was going to be the response, but that's not >really true unless acme has been rewritten on the lower level kbd >model.

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-03 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 3 September 2015 at 16:14, erik quanstrom wrote: > somehow I thought that was going to be the response, but that's not really > true unless acme has been rewritten on the lower level kbd model. > > that model also introduces user space kbd control, so good luck using it

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-03 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
No, I meant other implementation suggestions. Since you're all as lazy as I am, here it is: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.plan9/Q6R9iuu0lE8/u3h-FUnXOmEJ On 2 September 2015 at 16:01, wrote: > > Also there was a discussion on 9fans about it with other > >

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-03 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 3 September 2015 at 11:16, Mathieu Lonjaret > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.plan9/Q6R9iuu0lE8/u3h-FUnXOmEJ Thanks for the link! I wonder, why is it that they claim that implementing the functionality of: 3b = search forward, shift+3b = search backward is not feasible on plan9...

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-03 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Sep 3 02:40:05 PDT 2015, rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: > On 3 September 2015 at 11:16, Mathieu Lonjaret > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.plan9/Q6R9iuu0lE8/u3h-FUnXOmEJ > > Thanks for the link! > I wonder, why is it that they claim that implementing the functionality > of: > 3b

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-03 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:11 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > because the keyboard doesn't pass modal presses to user space There has been solved in 9front in 2011: http://man.cat-v.org/9front/8/kbdfs -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-02 Thread lucio
> I.e., the suggestions you mention are still far from reciprocal > to a b3-click on any word in the text file. It's just one of those Pandora's boxes, once it's open it can't be closed. I have continual trouble with unintentionlly pressing the Cape-Lock key at the same time as the letter A and

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-02 Thread lucio
> Also there was a discussion on 9fans about it with other > suggestions/solutions. :-/RE is what I remember Russ recommending, It's not perfect, but it does help. Lucio.

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-02 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
I had done https://bitbucket.org/mpl/acme-with-easy-backwards-search , but since I wasn't bright enough to host it as a diff I don't really remember how it works or what I changed. I think I had added a Rev command to the tag bar of the window. Although it wasn't useful enough for me to keep on

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-02 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 2 September 2015 at 16:37, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:01 PM, wrote: >>> Also there was a discussion on 9fans about it with other >>> suggestions/solutions. >> >> :-/RE >> >> is what I remember Russ recommending,

Re: [9fans] acme search backwards

2015-09-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:01 PM, wrote: >> Also there was a discussion on 9fans about it with other >> suggestions/solutions. > > :-/RE > > is what I remember Russ recommending, It's not perfect, but it does help. > > Lucio. > > Page 4 of A Tutorial for Sam Command