On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:07:26PM +0200, Uriel wrote:
On 7/6/06, Kris Maglione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:47:28PM +0400, Alexander Polakov wrote:
>That's very fine, I like Plan9 but it has too few apps. But do you think
you
>can really achieve the goal? I think it's rather difficult with X. And you
>mean I would be able to select "term" anywhere, click the mouse and see
term?
>And what about plumber? And if ever wm supports it, apps (gtk,qt,x)
don't.
>Btw is there any apps behaving like Plan9ish (meaning they're snarfable)?
I think you misunderstand. The behavior of the WM and the apps distributed
with it (wmiimenu) are to behave much like Plan 9. You'll be able to plumb
the
word term and deal with it as you wish. Other apps, aside from the
plan9port
ones, will not support Plan 9-ish behaviour, though you will (as you've
been
able to for some time) be able to select text in them and plumb it using
wmiipsel.
The point here, though, is to be able to snarf or plumb any text that the
WM
gives you, including window titles, tags, and status information (or, where
appropriate, to edit it).
Actually, having a Plumb action in the tag bar would allow plumbing
even in apps that don't support it! all the Plumb action has to do is
plumb the current X selection, and any X apps that sets the current
selection will "just work". Of course this is not as convenient as
right clicking inside acme, but in practice it is not very different
from how plumbing works in rio windows.
Yes, that's what I meant when I said you could already do it. I have a plumb
button on my bar which runs: plumb `{wmiipsel}
Unfortunately, it still doesn't give other apps the regexps from lib/plumbing
(although I doubt wmii will have these either).
--
Kris Maglione
I will inform you soon later.
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