Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread FRIGN
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:35:07 +0200 Dimitris Zervas dzer...@dzervas.gr wrote: I didn't know about libvitapi. I'll check it. About line editors: COME ON. Line editors have their uses once you work with them a bit more. About compatibility/portability: I want the library to work for me. I don't

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2014-01-31 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
After writing this mail I discovered a bug in the Shift+Del definition.

Re: [dev] [PATCH] Fix SHIFT+DEL definition

2014-01-31 Thread Christoph Lohmann
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:40:22 +0100 Roberto E. Vargas Caballero k...@shike2.com wrote: The AppMode and AsciiMode were inverted in the definition of this combination. Thanks, it has been applied. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread Dimitris Zervas
That’s where the suckless solution should begin, by having reusable mod‐ ules. For example there was the idea on the IRC channel to have a sepa‐ rate GUI process handling the output and giving callbacks via a simple text interface over a pipe. That process could display the meta‐informa‐

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
So, you are suggesting an ultra abstract model. Output the data in such a way that it could be parsed by an output handler (graphical, text, or however you want). I must process this idea. It is not very abstract. It is the central idea in Unix world: This is the Unix philosophy:

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread Carlos Torres
Hello, On 1/31/14, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: Greetings. A different paradigm has to be solved here. The paradigm of 2D inter‐ faces to complex tasks. This could be done using swk. If you have swk done right, then it could be easily run in text or graphics mode. Currently

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread Lee Fallat
Rio from plan 9 is like this, more or less. :) Check it out. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Dimitris Zervas dzer...@dzervas.gr wrote: That’s where the suckless solution should begin, by having reusable mod‐ ules. For example there was the idea on the IRC channel to have a sepa‐ rate GUI

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread Dimitris Zervas
with swt i've tried to define how one would interact with it to create the UI, it could be driven by any language able to read and write to files. its interesting that surf and dwm just got fifo in them...perhaps tabbed should too. perhaps really we should have separate embedable

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread Carlos Torres
Hello, On 1/31/14, Carlos Torres vlaadbr...@gmail.com wrote: surfs fifo patch doesn't currently allow for injection of html or execution of javascript. it simply allows you to control the interface via a file. maybe injection/execution of javascript is doable already, but i'm not aware of

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread Dimitris Zervas
hmm, fifo interface for Xlib. Sounds like a good way to get my hands dirty with Xlib. Do I have to interface all the features of xlib, or we need some specific?

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread sin
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 06:01:48PM +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote: hmm, fifo interface for Xlib. Sounds like a good way to get my hands dirty with Xlib. Do I have to interface all the features of xlib, or we need some specific? ALL OF THEM.

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread Carlos Torres
Hello, On 1/31/14, Dimitris Zervas dzer...@dzervas.gr wrote: hmm, fifo interface for Xlib. Sounds like a good way to get my hands dirty with Xlib. Do I have to interface all the features of xlib, or we need some specific? Maybe i miss spoke a little when stating fifo interface to Xlib, Xlib

Re: [dev] [PATCH] [sbase] printf: Avoid casts for better portability

2014-01-31 Thread FRIGN
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:43:50 +0100 FRIGN d...@frign.de wrote: Using the C99 PRIu32-macro and %zu-format-specifier increase portability and avoid these unnecessary casts. Argh, I forgot C90 didn't support the z-format-specifier. So, we won't get around casting len to unsigned long -.-. Please

Re: [dev] ncurses or ...

2014-01-31 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Dimitris Zervas dzer...@dzervas.gr [2014-01-31 00:36]: [...] Shouldn't we create a new TUI library? I found http://www.clifford.at/stfl/ fairly decent. It's unfortunately pretty much stalled in terms of upstream development though. Nico -- Nico Golde - XMPP: n...@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: