Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 06/17/2011 10:37 AM, markus schnalke wrote: For the same reason we want Unix's manifold toolchain and for the same reason we want several programming languages: Because ``One fits all'' is an illusion. Then try to figure out some basic tools that you can glue together to form a fully

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-12 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 06/07/2011 07:09 PM, pancake wrote: Its anti natural. It's not. Because I asked myself which is the best working environment regarding ones eyes some time ago, I looked around for some scientific research on the topic of black-background vs white background. There's not that much research

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-12 Thread Nicolai Waniek
I am saying if your code needs UML documentation to be understood, then it is not suckless. I fully agree. Also, I tend to dislike auto-generated documentation because the valuable part is very small and hidden among loads of crap. That depends on the tool you (have to) use. As an

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-12 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 05/12/2011 03:51 PM, Nicolai Waniek wrote: I still have to find any sane mathematical notation for parallelism in programming languages though... Of course CSP goes in this direction, but as soon as your language is not based on CSP in any way, you yet again have to document describing

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-11 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 05/10/2011 04:57 PM, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote: Good code is supposed to be readable, and should need no UML diagram (and probably very few comments). Though you're right that it should not _need_ a UML diagram, having one isn't that bad either. This is especially true when you're not

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-11 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 09/10/2010 07:46 PM, v4hn wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:19:38PM +0300, Nikhilesh S wrote: I haven't really understood the problems with C++ that the people here that have problems with C++ have[...] Felix von Leitner gave a pretty good presentation in 2007 on such problems :)

Re: [dev] Surf 0.4 issues

2010-06-21 Thread Nicolai Waniek
I guess you should make your configuration changes to config.h instead of config.def.h. the latter one is there to have some 'reference configuration' if you have f***ed up your config.h. regards

Re: [dev] GSoC 2010

2010-03-03 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 03/03/2010 06:28 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: What would be the benefits of porting dwm to a new language? From my point of view, dwm is already functional and mature, porting it over to Go doesn't sound very constructive. And porting it is a real pain, at the moment. For example, you don't

Re: [dev] [dwm] Java Swing sucks, any solutions?

2010-02-05 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 02/05/2010 03:47 PM, Alexander Surma wrote: I'm forced to use jmeter for the next two weeks at work. It's a swing app. Swing and dwm don't seem to wrk at all. Doesn't the good ol' ``export AWT_TOOKIT=MToolkit'' work for ya? If not, define not working. Surma In most

Re: [dev] [dwm] sdl12 / dwm 5.6 /5.7.2 ioquake3 problems

2010-02-01 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 02/01/2010 08:05 AM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: What do you exactly mean? I guess he means that when dragging windows in float mode, some applications behave like f***. For example, start a ddd session over ssh and move the window around when the debugger is running. Though I'm using xmonad, the

Re: [dev] [dwm] sdl12 / dwm 5.6 /5.7.2 ioquake3 problems

2010-02-01 Thread Nicolai Waniek
Oh and what he might mean with outline moving: just drawing the outline of a window that is to be moved, looking as if you only move around its border to the window's future position and not actually moving the window until you have decided where to place it.

Re: [dev] licenses (was: simple portscanner)

2010-01-02 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 01/03/2010 01:11 AM, hiro wrote: Often it's better to listen to your intuition and ignore German laws. Especially if you are no lawyer and just read about so-called laws on Wikipedia. most stupid idea ever. if you're in the software industry and wish to make your source public you should

Re: [dev] [st] goals / non-goals for st?

2009-10-30 Thread Nicolai Waniek
Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:01:43PM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: xmessage can read from pipes? make xmessage read from stdin with the -file - option, e.g. echo mmh | xmessage -file - regards, Nicolai