Re: [dev] Call for pkgsrc users

2013-04-11 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Patrick Haller 201009-suckl...@haller.ws [2013-04-11 04:30]: On 2013-04-10 13:13, William Giokas wrote: There are extremely strong technical arguments for using systemd as a simple, easy to use and easy to configure initialization system. systemd trades simplicity for boot-speed and stack

Re: [dev] Call for pkgsrc users

2013-04-11 Thread Hugues Moretto-Viry
2013/4/11 Patrick Haller 201009-suckl...@haller.ws Anyway, pancake's contributing to voidlinux so I'll try void. Any other good rolling release distros? Didn't know it. I'll give it a try. Thank you. -- H.Moretto

[dev] [st] pasting to gvim sucks

2013-04-11 Thread p37sitdu
This patch makes behaviour consistent with xterm and comments. diff --git a/st.c b/st.c index 93058b9..90c102e 100644 --- a/st.c +++ b/st.c @@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ selcopy(void) { } /* \n at the end of every selected line except for the last one */

[dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Max DeLiso
I know what you're probably thinking. A) That's stupid B) Therefore OP must be stupid. But wait for just one second! The state of the command prompt on windows is a mess. There are several massive, tangled, bug-ridden, and crufty subsystems which must interact in multiple ways in order to make

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Martti Kühne
What are you writing C++ code if you could use Xming or even cygwin to just compile the actual st on windows?

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread pancake
On 04/11/13 17:13, Max DeLiso wrote: On Apr 11, 2013 11:05 AM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com mailto:mysat...@gmail.com wrote: What are you writing C++ code if you could use Xming or even cygwin to just compile the actual st on windows? Well it does add an extra layer of abstraction

Re: [dev] [st] pasting to gvim sucks

2013-04-11 Thread Carlos Torres
this is a funny patch. it must have been about 1 to 2 months ago that there was another discussion about pasting to other apps and thats when that carrige return appeared. and now there is a patch to revert that back...lol this is great, i look forward to another patch that takes it back to \r

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Martti Kühne
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: Well it does add an extra layer of abstraction which could be a source of bugs. Also that would make contributing significantly more difficult for the Windows people. People use windows because they don't know any better.

Re: [dev] [st] pasting to gvim sucks

2013-04-11 Thread Martti Kühne
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Carlos Torres vlaadbr...@gmail.com wrote: this is a funny patch. it must have been about 1 to 2 months ago that there was another discussion about pasting to other apps and thats when that carrige return appeared. and now there is a patch to revert that

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Aurélien Aptel
You might me interested in ConEmu http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread pancake
On 04/11/13 17:23, Martti Kühne wrote: Never did that. Thanks for the heads-up, although I was already under the impression that on windows nothing at all can be debugged, because, well, where's the fucking source to anything? who needs the source to debug anything?

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Max DeLiso
On Apr 11, 2013 11:23 AM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: Well it does add an extra layer of abstraction which could be a source of bugs. Also that would make contributing significantly more difficult for the

Re: [dev] Call for pkgsrc users

2013-04-11 Thread Galos, David
Anyway, pancake's contributing to voidlinux so I'll try void. Any other good rolling release distros? From the voidlinux page: Speed, reliability, and flexibility. That's the battle-cry of today's disgruntled computer geeks. This is what people want with a Linux distribution, and this is what

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:48:11 +0200 Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: I know what you're probably thinking. A) That's stupid Windows is the reason why we lack behind in software development by more than 20 years. Software is unusable, proprietary and programmers are taught

Re: [dev] [st] pasting to gvim sucks

2013-04-11 Thread Nick
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:25:46PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Carlos Torres vlaadbr...@gmail.com wrote: this is a funny patch. it must have been about 1 to 2 months ago that there was another discussion about pasting to other apps and thats when that

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Max DeLiso
On Apr 11, 2013 11:54 AM, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: Greetings. On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:48:11 +0200 Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: I know what you're probably thinking. A) That's stupid Windows is the reason why we lack behind in software development by more than 20

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Jacob Todd
Kill yourself. On Apr 11, 2013 12:42 PM, Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 11, 2013 11:54 AM, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: Greetings. On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:48:11 +0200 Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: I know what you're probably thinking. A) That's

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread sl
The web is the future of computing, that much is evident. The web is not even the present of computing. Most humans access the Internet using custom clients (apps) on mobile devices. -sl

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Nick
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:45:48PM -0400, Jacob Todd wrote: Kill yourself. Please can we try not to be needlessly dramatic and unpleasant here? The tone of this list gets quite hard to handle sometimes, and seems to have been going more in this direction lately. I know the prevailing sentiment

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Max DeLiso
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:46 PM, s...@9front.org wrote: The web is the future of computing, that much is evident. The web is not even the present of computing. Most humans access the Internet using custom clients (apps) on mobile devices. Really depends how you define web doesn't it? If by

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Max DeLiso
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:45:48PM -0400, Jacob Todd wrote: Kill yourself. Please can we try not to be needlessly dramatic and unpleasant here? seconding this! It's juvenile and counterproductive.

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread sl
Really depends how you define Kill yourself. -sl

Re: [dev] [st] pasting to gvim sucks

2013-04-11 Thread p37sitdu
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:00:00PM +0100, Nick wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:25:46PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Carlos Torres vlaadbr...@gmail.com wrote: this is a funny patch. it must have been about 1 to 2 months ago that there was another

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:22:22 +0200 Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:45:48PM -0400, Jacob Todd wrote: The tone of this list gets quite hard to handle sometimes, and seems to have been going more in this direction lately. No, that’s due to the people

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Joseph Xu
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: A) That's stupid B) Therefore OP must be stupid. I don't think you're stupid, because the few times I've had to use cmd.exe, I've thought about this myself. But I do think it's a waste of time. How much do you use the

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Charlie Kester
On 04/11/2013 09:41, Max DeLiso wrote: If windows was totally unusable would it have succeeded in the way that it has? Windows is certainly not ideal in any sense but you can't deny its ongoing success commercially. Windows (and before it, DOS) was never an example of well-designed software.

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Max DeLiso
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Joseph Xu joseph...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: A) That's stupid B) Therefore OP must be stupid. I don't think you're stupid, because the few times I've had to use cmd.exe, I've thought about this

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread pancake
On 04/11/13 19:24, Joseph Xu wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: A) That's stupid B) Therefore OP must be stupid. I don't think you're stupid, because the few times I've had to use cmd.exe, I've thought about this myself. But I do think it's a waste

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread random832
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013, at 10:59, Max DeLiso wrote: My aim is to create a minimalist terminal emulator for windows. I want a project whose relationship to the cmd/conhost/csrss triad is analogous to the relationship between st and xterm/x. I'm going to try and lift out of st all of the platform

Re: [dev] Call for pkgsrc users

2013-04-11 Thread hiro
tinycore and crux come without systemd

Re: [dev] ii IPv6 support

2013-04-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Patrick 201009-suckl...@haller.ws [2013-04-08 12:25]: Attached is a patch to add IPv6 support to ii, based on where it was as of 7a99152ce64d7006730006094b333edbecbe505a Enjoy, scream, whatever... hmm? http://tools.suckless.org/ii/patches/ii-1.7-ssl.diff Cheers Nico

Re: [dev] Call for pkgsrc users

2013-04-11 Thread pancake
Shouldnt be hard to make a void base-system-minit package. In fact it was using sysvinit before. There are also musl, static and crosscompilation profiles. Its just a matter of hands and time :P systemd was chosed at first because it was replacing about 15 packages and this made the pkg

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Max DeLiso dixit: If windows was totally unusable would it have succeeded in the way that it Windows® does not have succeeded. Until and including version 7, it’s brought new people, who IMHO do not belong in front of a computer except with nōn-root rights and having hired, say, a student as

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Strake
On 11/04/2013, Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree that Windows is a legacy OS, but plenty of people are still forced to use it for many legitimate reasons. Forced? How? At knifepoint?

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Max DeLiso
On Apr 11, 2013 5:04 PM, Strake strake...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/04/2013, Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree that Windows is a legacy OS, but plenty of people are still forced to use it for many legitimate reasons. Forced? How? At knifepoint? Lock-in. Be it device

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Hugues Moretto-Viry
2013/4/11 Strake strake...@gmail.com On 11/04/2013, Max DeLiso maxdel...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree that Windows is a legacy OS, but plenty of people are still forced to use it for many legitimate reasons. Forced? How? At knifepoint? Because of my work. I'm using PL7Pro which

Re: [dev] [st] pasting to gvim sucks

2013-04-11 Thread Alexander Sedov
Maybe pasting to st should be fixed too, so when newlines are pasted, they are translated to ^M. But '\n' should be copied, otherwise pasting to graphical programs is broken. That's how urxvt does it and this is what my patch originally done (sort of, translation was in ttywrite while in

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Alexander Sedov
Oh, look, how nice, religious wars at dev@suckless, and my favourite argument about Windows being crappy operating system with absolutely no justification. Religious people never justify their views, I guess. About the lock-in: drivers may be the case, but applications can not be lock-in. If

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Daniel Bryan
Please can we try not to be needlessly dramatic and unpleasant here? The tone of this list gets quite hard to handle sometimes, and seems to have been going more in this direction lately. I know the prevailing sentiment here is that people should be treated with the respect their comments

Re: [dev] ii IPv6 support

2013-04-11 Thread Patrick Haller
On 2013-04-11 20:53, Nico Golde wrote: http://tools.suckless.org/ii/patches/ii-ipv6.diff Aw fsck. Can we put the patches in the git repo? Either as plain files in patches/, or create a branch based on the commit they diff'd at?

Re: [dev] ii IPv6 support

2013-04-11 Thread Carlos Torres
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Patrick Haller 201009-suckl...@haller.ws wrote: On 2013-04-11 20:53, Nico Golde wrote: http://tools.suckless.org/ii/patches/ii-ipv6.diff Aw fsck. Can we put the patches in the git repo? Either as plain files in patches/, or create a branch based on the commit

Re: [dev] ii IPv6 support

2013-04-11 Thread Patrick Haller
On 2013-04-11 21:17, Carlos Torres wrote: it was there just a little hidden http://git.suckless.org/sites/tree/tools.suckless.org/ii/patches/ii-ipv6.diff i mean in the ii repo - http://git.suckless.org/ii

Re: [dev] ii IPv6 support

2013-04-11 Thread William Giokas
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:25:25AM +0800, Patrick Haller wrote: On 2013-04-11 21:17, Carlos Torres wrote: it was there just a little hidden http://git.suckless.org/sites/tree/tools.suckless.org/ii/patches/ii-ipv6.diff i mean in the ii repo - http://git.suckless.org/ii I agree...I think

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Nimrod Omer
I'm pretty sure angry people shouting at each other are always in the minority. Hey, look, webcomics agree! http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comicsid=2939 -Nimi

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Noah Birnel
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:59:46AM -0400, Max DeLiso wrote: A) That's stupid Misguided instead? Very few people who would appreciate a simple terminal are likely to be using Windows. (I'm one of them.) I doubt you'll get many competent coders to contribute. (I'm not one of them.) And it's such a

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Noah Birnel
People use windows because they don't know any better. If most people are using it, there start to be reasons other than ignorance. For instance, in legal discovery, we don't have the privilege of telling the judge: Sorry, this evidence was generated by people using lousy software on a lousy

Re: [dev] [st] pasting to gvim sucks

2013-04-11 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:00:00PM +0100, Nick wrote: Best to figure out what is more correct, do that, and patch any applications that do things the wrong way. I guess other terminals manage this okay, in spite of their faults, why not check to see what they are doing?

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Sam Watkins
One of the main suckless devs Uriel did commit suicide not long ago. Perhaps people here could refrain from saying kill yourself, out of respect to him. Or did he talk that way also? Did the same people spit the dummy, when dwm was ported to Windoze? There are already tolerable terminals for

Re: [dev] [st] pasting to gvim sucks

2013-04-11 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
I'd say this qualifies for a move to config.h. I might be back later with a patch for that. Umm, no. If you want to use st with x, y, z programs, set this to \r, if you want to use a, b, c programs, set \n is a terrible idea. Best to figure out what is more correct, do that, and patch any