[dev] Re: I wrote a pager

2016-09-18 Thread Christian Neukirchen
hiro <23h...@gmail.com> writes: > Suckless is not about being so small that any task, even stupidly > useless like this one suddenly sucks less because of linecount. 1 loc! awk 'NR%22==0 { getline _ <"/dev/tty" } {print}' -- Christian Neukirchen

Re: [dev] Re: I wrote a pager

2016-09-18 Thread Joseph Graham
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 03:34:38PM +0200, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > > 1 loc! > > awk 'NR%22==0 { getline _ <"/dev/tty" } {print}' > You do your paging with 1 loc and yet you send email with something as bloated as Emacs!

Re: [dev] Re: I wrote a pager

2016-09-18 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-09-18 16:41, Joseph Graham wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 03:34:38PM +0200, Christian Neukirchen wrote: 1 loc! awk 'NR%22==0 { getline _ <"/dev/tty" } {print}' You do your paging with 1 loc and yet you send email with something as bloated as Emacs! Actually, it isn't 1 LOC, awk

Re: [dev] Re: I wrote a pager

2016-09-18 Thread Greg Reagle
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016, at 09:34 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > 1 loc! > > awk 'NR%22==0 { getline _ <"/dev/tty" } {print}' Great! And stali has awk. It works pretty well, but doesn't take into account long lines.

Re: [dev] Re: I wrote a pager

2016-09-18 Thread hiro
> Actually, it isn't 1 LOC, awk is more than that ^^ It's a stupid joke, as you probably know awk is a good abstraction that is perfectly fine to use. You also don't understand the complexity on the lower levels (for example firmware, microcode), but you are happy nonetheless even though many