Hello, On 2018-05-22 00:38, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 21 May 2018 at 17:12, Adrian Grigore <adrian.emil.grig...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm having problems compiling usul: > > This is a surprise. Where did you get usul from?
I sent the copy. I use usul regularly so I still have the whole repo locally. > > I have been wondering lately about resurrecting usul, since 'tabular > munging' with Unix utilities without the ability to set $FS and $RS > can be really unpleasant, and I've had to do quite a bit of it > recently. > > I did also write a program to complement usul which performs elastic > tabbing on its input, the idea being that you end up with a nice > tabular view in your terminal. I think ideally you might want 'real' > terminal support for it though, as when printing to the tty you either > need to buffer a lot of data (i.e. until a line with no FS), or you > need to do crazy tty-rewriting ANSI escapes, which it did support but > is a massive hack. In what way is the elastic tabbing different from what Plan9's mc(1)? Ciao, -- Raphaël