Re: [dev] st lack of scrollback

2016-08-11 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-08-11 20:32, Britton Kerin wrote: I realize it's a non-goal I realize there are patches that sort of work (still jumps to bottom on output unfortunately) It should be a goal because it's generally desirable and the alternative mentioned on the web page isn't. I use st because it let me

Re: [dev] s - suckless shell

2016-08-12 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-08-13 03:28, hiro wrote: there already is a suckless shell, called rc. stupid you. A new shell will have it's own use cases and might be a perfect fit for certain projects, some cases might not require shell scripting so the interpreter part is unneeded. Raiz

Re: [dev] [dwm] compile error

2016-08-21 Thread Ali H. Fardan
If you could translate the compiler error I'd appreciate it Raiz On 2016-08-21 19:19, Orka Edison wrote: [sudo] password for Orka: cleaning dwm build options: CFLAGS = -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Os -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 -D_BSD_SOURCE -

Re: [dev] [dwm] compile error

2016-08-21 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-08-21 19:35, Reimundo Heluani wrote: On Aug 21, Ali H. Fardan wrote: If you could translate the compiler error I'd appreciate it Raiz It's a "not such file or directory" error, it's not finding the headers ft2build.h R Well, you answered it, ft2build.h hea

Re: [dev] suckless debugger?

2016-08-31 Thread Ali H. Fardan
u...@netbeisser.de wrote: do you know of a suckless linux debugger? what is an alternative to ptrace? I use throw a bunch of puts()s around the code to see when it crashes (or misbehaves), and printf()s to print variables value while the program is running, and getchar()s as a breakpoints. Ho

Re: [dev] [sbase] about audit

2016-09-01 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-09-01 17:46, Marc Collin wrote: Hey guys. The missing brackets on paste.c that I talked about on the last message revealed something else to me. It was introduced in commit cdbc0d50356a0f7e0dd5755e3c46593a947cf029 by FRIGN, 2015-01-29. Then it was marked as audited and correct in commi

Re: [dev] [sbase] about audit

2016-09-01 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-09-01 18:34, Marc Collin wrote: Since we're talking about sbase already in kind of meta way, I'll post a question here instead of a new email. sbase is basically ready, right? The few missing tools are not yet applied, but were sent to the ML by maandree some months ago (patch, diff and o

Re: [dev] Shell style guide

2016-09-06 Thread Ali H. Fardan
one more thing, multiline vs one-line statements: if [ expr ... ]; then ... fi versus if [ expr ... ] then ... fi this applies to others as well: while [ expr ... ] do ... done I'd stick with the multiline style, what about you? On 2016-09-06 21:35, Evan Gates wrote: suckless.o

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 is

Re: [dev] name for ii-like chatting

2016-09-27 Thread Ali H. Fardan
I prefer to call it front-end On 2016-09-27 15:09, Jan Klemkow wrote: Hi, I am programming on front-end and back-end tools for ii for several years now. For the back-end I use UCSPI[0] (Unix Client Server Program Interface). But there is no name for the front-end of tools like ii[1], ratox[

Re: [dev] [surf] badssl.com

2016-10-12 Thread Ali H. Fardan
That's in the config, the user should be responsible for it. Raiz On 2016-10-13 00:02, Alexander Keller wrote: I just took surf to badssl.com to test how the TLS implementation in surf reacts. To test I took the default Arch Linux package for a ride. It failed the test. This is because by defau

Re: [dev] [surf] badssl.com

2016-10-13 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-10-13 15:42, Alexander Keller wrote: That's in the config, the user should be responsible for it. True, it is in the config. It's also the default. If the alternative is too much, perhaps changing strictssl = FALSE \* Refuse untrusted SSL connections *\ to strictssl = FAL

Re: [dev] app locations?

2016-10-17 Thread Ali H. Fardan
In my opinion: /bin - for binaries that come with the system /usr/bin - binaries installed the default package manager, which is at /bin /usr/local/bin - is for binaries installed by the user without using the package manager */sbin - is nonsense However, I still support adding everything to /

Re: [dev] app locations?

2016-10-17 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-10-17 19:19, a...@alexpilon.ca wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 07:03:59PM +0300, Ali H. Fardan wrote: /bin - for binaries that come with the system So they never get maintained with a package manager? Sounds like a really weird way of doing things. If you bootstrap with a tarball, the

Re: [dev] app locations?

2016-10-17 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-10-17 19:44, a...@alexpilon.ca wrote: Throw away your Linux-ish idea of "everything is a package", What the heck is wrong with that? Relax, okay, just relax. And why argue against, if you mentioned it in the first place? I was just pointing out an inconsistency in how it was presen

Re: [dev] app locations?

2016-10-17 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-10-17 19:44, a...@alexpilon.ca wrote: Throw away your Linux-ish idea of "everything is a package", What the heck is wrong with that? Relax, okay, just relax. And why argue against, if you mentioned it in the first place? I was just pointing out an inconsistency in how it was presen

Re: [dev] Collecting sins of Apple

2016-10-21 Thread Ali H. Fardan
One of the biggest failures they have, is they're unable to develop their own OS/Software by themselves, see their source tree[0], it's just GNU utils, BSD utils, and other stolen parts, not to mention the bad design of their hardware and it's overprice. On 2016-10-21 22:54, lukáš Hozda wrote: H

Re: [dev] [ st ] - 'visudo' has strange effect

2016-10-30 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-10-30 20:44, Mohammed Zohaib Ali Khan wrote: Coming to the point, I am using 'st' teminal and when I used 'visudo' command in it, it did not render properly. If you are unable to replicate the effect, please let me know I can provide more details on it. Like we can assume your issue mag

Re: [dev] [ st ] - 'visudo' has strange effect

2016-10-30 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-10-30 21:02, Mohammed Zohaib Ali Khan wrote: Hi You can just run 'visudo' in st and check if it does the job. Easy enough to check, isnt it? It works well for me For me it simply doesn't fill the terminal with the /etc/sudoers in the editor instead it trying to fill after the current

Re: [dev] [ st ] - 'visudo' has strange effect

2016-10-30 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-10-30 21:49, Mohammed Zohaib Ali Khan wrote: Other terminals like rxvt run it fine After running in st I am able to exit using the :q, so it does open however, does not render properly. Alright, could you please specify your OS, Window manager, compiler, compiler version, CFLAGS used w

Re: [dev] [spt] 0.4 release

2016-11-01 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-10-31 20:30, Ivan Tham wrote: spt - simple pomodoro timer http://git.pickfire.tk/spt, https://github.com/pickfire/spt http://git.pickfire.tk/spt/snapshot/spt-0.4.tar.gz why have a usage() function when all it does is run die()? --- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ww

Re: [dev] [spt] 0.4 release

2016-11-01 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-11-01 17:41, Pickfire wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 02:41:02PM +0300, Ali H. Fardan wrote: On 2016-10-31 20:30, Ivan Tham wrote: spt - simple pomodoro timer http://git.pickfire.tk/spt, https://github.com/pickfire/spt http://git.pickfire.tk/spt/snapshot/spt-0.4.tar.gz why have a

Re: [dev] [ANNOUNCE] slock-1.4

2016-11-20 Thread Ali H. Fardan
On 2016-11-20 00:47, Markus Teich wrote: - add proper priviledge dropping yeah, "priviledge" dropping is nice :)