Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-22 Thread Staven
We live, we die, we live again!



Re: [9fans] Any demand for a supported Windows version of p9port?

2016-07-28 Thread Staven
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 01:41:43PM +1200, Winston Kodogo wrote:
> I was kind of wondering if there was an option for people who like Microsoft 
> development tools to build Plan9 tools, which are admittedly a minority taste 
> in the Windows world, without spending several weeks installing 3rd party 
> tools and then being told how stupid they are.
 
If I bought Microsoft development tools, I'd at least expect to be told
how stupid I am in a timely manner.




Re: [9fans] /acme/edit commands?

2016-05-18 Thread Staven
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:32:18AM +, Brian Vito wrote:
> Are the /acme/edit commands (as discussed in the Acme paper and included with
> the Inferno version of Acme) included in Plan 9 or plan9port? If not, what is 
> the
> workflow replacement? Thanks.

Doesn't the Edit command provide the same functionality?




Re: [9fans] The Plan 9/"right" way to do Facebook

2016-03-30 Thread Staven
It's not worth it.

You'll probably think I'm just being flippant, but I'm not.

It's just not worth it.




Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

2015-10-12 Thread Staven
I thought a web garden was a hobbyist version of a server farm.




Re: [9fans] libframe Go port

2015-10-11 Thread Staven
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 09:27:57PM +, Giles Hutton wrote:
> better than vim, but acme's text editing was a bit too simplistic compared
> to vim. So my initial intention was to port acme to Go, and add in vi-style
> modal editing.

What text editing features from vim do you miss in Acme?




Re: [9fans] libframe Go port

2015-10-10 Thread Staven
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 03:42:42PM +, Giles Hutton wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm currently in the process of porting acme to Go

Why?




Re: [9fans] On Linux, what is the rc init file?

2015-08-28 Thread Staven
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:13:26AM -0500, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> Every shell has one. You know, like .bashrc, .profile, etc. What's
> plan9port rc's?

It's all there in the manual.

  -l If -l is given or the first character of argument
 zero is -, rc reads commands from
 $home/lib/profile, if it exists, before reading
 its normal input.