[dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Andreas Krennmair
Hello everyone, Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also 'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached a point where I can show that piece of software to you. It currently supports the tar

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Truls Becken
On 2012-11-06, at 12:00, Andreas Krennmair wrote: It currently supports the tar operations c, t and x (which makes it a bit more useful than sltar) and the options -f, -C, -v, -z and -j (for decompression only). Cool. Did you consider auto detecting compression from file name and/or

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at wrote: Hello everyone, Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also 'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net [2012-11-06 16:20]: On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at wrote: Hello everyone, Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:06 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at wrote: * Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net [2012-11-06 16:20]: On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at wrote: Hello everyone, Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 6 November 2012 11:00, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: Greetings. On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:06 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at wrote: * Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net [2012-11-06 16:20]: On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair a...@synflood.at wrote:

[dev] [st] patch to support mouse wheel scrolling

2012-11-06 Thread Brandon Invergo
Gentlemen, Because, unfortunately, you sometimes have a mouse in your hand... Here's a patch to add support for buttons 4 and 5 on your mouse (usually the scroll wheel). Like the keyboard bindings in conf.def.h, you can choose strings to write to the tty upon pressing these buttons (well, upon

Re: [dev] [st] line drawing?

2012-11-06 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
I just upgraded my st install to latest tip, and now all the line drawing characters (such as in mutt) are a lowercase 'd'. This seems suboptimal. Older st versions had stuff in config.h for configuring these, but that seems gone now. I just have tested it and it seems work for me. What

Re: [dev] [st] patch to support mouse wheel scrolling

2012-11-06 Thread Carlos Torres
You're not saying that emacs sucks right? I couldn't resist... On Nov 6, 2012 1:51 PM, Brandon Invergo bran...@invergo.net wrote: Gentlemen, Because, unfortunately, you sometimes have a mouse in your hand... Here's a patch to add support for buttons 4 and 5 on your mouse (usually the

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Alex Hutton
On 7 November 2012 03:00, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_; No. There was only one person pretending go to be suckless because of its pseudo Plan 9 heritage. Which languages qualify as suckless? Cheers, Alex

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Kai Hendry
On 7 November 2012 09:58, Alex Hutton highspeed...@gmail.com wrote: Which languages qualify as suckless? Have you not noticed http://hg.suckless.org/ ?

Re: [dev] I don't want to live on this planet anymore

2012-11-06 Thread Sébastien Lacombe
In other words, It's a big difference between the number of lines for a software and the understanding of the fonction and the operations, and I think it's the point. The Suckless meaning, in this perspective, to be easily accessible to the understanding of anybody, like the principle of unix.

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread KarlOskar Rikås
C++ Java. On Nov 7, 2012 2:58 AM, Alex Hutton highspeed...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 November 2012 03:00, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_; No. There was only one person pretending go to be suckless because of its pseudo Plan 9 heritage.

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Brandon Invergo
Which languages qualify as suckless? Only Brainfuck. Anything more is superfluous.

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread pmarin
Obviously C. Also you have to love Xlib, GTK+ and vintage console terminals. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Alex Hutton highspeed...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 November 2012 03:00, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_; No. There was only one person

Re: [dev] [st] line drawing?

2012-11-06 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
If I switch to Liberation Mono it works. This is a pretty serious regression, since I used to be able to use whatever font I wanted without issue. It is a problem related to the switch to Xft. It impossible a font has all the unicode glyphs, so if the font fails in a glyph you have a