Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

What’s Dorren continent referencing? Silas On 24 Jun 2021, at 22:25, Wes Kussmaul mailto:w...@reliableid.com>> wrote: All versions of Plan9, Inferno, derivatives, forks, et al are welcome on the Glenda continent. 9fans / 9fans / see

Re: [9fans] Alternative to fine-grained mouse usage?

On 1 Jul 2021, at 18:48, Ethan Gardener mailto:eeke...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: sam -d can't display line numbers You can sort of display them via ,x { p } Though it’s ugly and annoyingly can’t apply sam’s regex to remove the character locations. Silas --

Re: [9fans] Alternative to fine-grained mouse usage?

On 2 Jul 2021, at 19:06, Ethan Gardener mailto:eeke...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: This reminds me why I switched to Forth: I can program my editor properly Could you expand on this point? Vaguely aware of Forth, but no experience with forth editors Silas --

Re: [9fans] Sam arena allocators

On 30 Jun 2021, at 00:44, noel.h...@gmail.com wrote: The source file in question is 'gcalloc.c' and it seems to be in sam source as late as 10th Edition. From a perusal of research source, it seems to have been used in jim, sam, pads, mux amongst others. Right, thank

Re: [9fans] Sam arena allocators

> On 28 Jun 2021, at 23:29, Rob Pike wrote: > After Acme was written, I replaced most of the buffer management code in Sam > with that from Acme, which was more efficient Right, that makes sense. > It's possible the old code used an arena allocator, I don't remember, > but it's possible you're

[9fans] Sam arena allocators

Hi, Recently discovered a blog post[1] stating Sam used to have arena based allocators. Having difficulty finding more about this - does anyone know what the allocator looked like and why the source returned to using the standard allocators. Silas

Re: [9fans] Searching sam for text

On 2 Aug 2021, at 17:47, Paul Lalonde mailto:paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com>> wrote: I occasionally do (in acme, sam MMV) ,x/open/+-{ p } For only a few results I’ve found simply ,x//= and then sending the results good enough, especially Acme where the plumber lets you jump to the result. Sending