Re: [9fans] acme from p9p vs acme in plan 9

2009-03-17 Thread Federico G. Benavento
it's a matter of taste, for me multiline tags aren't convenient and take too much space. -- Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] acme from p9p vs acme in plan 9

2009-03-17 Thread hugo rivera
would be nice to have it also in the original acme. Thanks 2009/3/17, lu...@proxima.alt.za : > > are there any big differences between acme from p9p and the original > > acme in plan 9? > > > Yes, precisely as you point out, the multiline tag is an enhancement > exclusive to p9p. You can scroll

Re: [9fans] acme from p9p vs acme in plan 9

2009-03-17 Thread lucio
> are there any big differences between acme from p9p and the original > acme in plan 9? Yes, precisely as you point out, the multiline tag is an enhancement exclusive to p9p. You can scroll the single line tag in native P9 by dragging button 1 down or up. Its is not as convenient, but it is wor

[9fans] acme from p9p vs acme in plan 9

2009-03-17 Thread hugo rivera
Hi there, are there any big differences between acme from p9p and the original acme in plan 9? I am asking this because it has been a while that I don't use plan 9 per se, but just its tools on linux (from p9p of course). I recently was trying 9vx and the free account on TIP9UG and I noticed that,

Re: [9fans] acme from p9p vs acme in plan 9

2009-03-17 Thread hugo rivera
you are right, but anyway it would be nice for people who find them useful ;-) 2009/3/17, Federico G. Benavento : > it's a matter of taste, for me multiline tags aren't convenient > and take too much space. > > -- > > Federico G. Benavento > > -- Hugo

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-17 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > Tiny Core Linux looks interesting. Played around a bit in a VM tonight > and will be trying it on the ThinkPad tomorrow. I'm curious about your > setup. I assume you're using 9vx directly for graphics, no more > drawterm? You run within X?

Re: [9fans] keyboard map for a czech keyboard

2009-03-17 Thread Rudolf Sykora
ok. I tried what I said and it really works... R 2009/3/11 Rudolf Sykora : > Hello, > > I'd like to teach my plan9 read my Czech keyboard. > But I don't know exactly what I have to change. > I wonder if it's enough to modify e.g. /sys/lib/kbmap/us, save it to > e.g. /sys/lib/kbmap/qwerty_cz and th

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread Uriel
Thanks Geoff for the prompt explanation, but I'm getting the same results with ifs=() Not sure why, but I'm not sure I understand the difference between setting ifs to '' and (). Thanks again uriel On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:40 AM, wrote: > Setting ifs='' defeats rc's tokenisation, so the resul

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Mar 17 18:17:53 EDT 2009, urie...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks Geoff for the prompt explanation, but I'm getting the same > results with ifs=() Not sure why, but I'm not sure I understand the > difference between setting ifs to '' and (). in your test, try this echo $#x - erik

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread Uriel
Thanks martin for your analysis, this makes some sense to me, but as I pointed out, even setting ifs to () doesn't solve the issue, so it would be nice to find a solution to this. Right now having the output of `{} corrupted can be quite inconvenient... Thanks uriel On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:01

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Mar 17 18:29:14 EDT 2009, urie...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks martin for your analysis, this makes some sense to me, but as I > pointed out, even setting ifs to () doesn't solve the issue, so it > would be nice to find a solution to this. > > Right now having the output of `{} corrupted can b

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Tue Mar 17 18:29:14 EDT 2009, urie...@gmail.com wrote: >> Thanks martin for your analysis, this makes some sense to me, but as I >> pointed out, even setting ifs to () doesn't solve the issue, so it >> would be nice to find a solution to

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread Uriel
> in your test, try this > >        echo $#x I tried that too, I'm getting the same result for an ifs of '' or (). % ifs=() {x=`{cat f}; echo $#x} 2 % ifs='' {x=`{cat f}; echo $#x} 2 I'm doing something else wrong? uriel

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> >> Right now having the output of `{} corrupted can be quite inconvenient... > > > > it is unreasonable to expect to be able to generate tokens > > that are bigger than 8k. > > Well, I would prefer if such limit didn't exist ;) But it doesn't seem > like a totally unreasonable limit either. why

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread Uriel
> why can't you just let ifs = $newline (formatted to fit your screen) ? Unfortunately that doesn't work in this case, my input is HTTP post data, which is a single line of URL-encoded text which I have to decode into multiple parameters of arbitrary length. Still, if no characters were getting l

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread Russ Cox
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Uriel wrote: > Unfortunately that doesn't work in this case, my input is HTTP post > data, which is a single line of URL-encoded text which I have to > decode into multiple parameters of arbitrary length. writing a shell script doesn't mean you have to write every

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Mar 17 20:29:50 EDT 2009, urie...@gmail.com wrote: > > why can't you just let ifs = $newline (formatted to fit your screen) ? > > Unfortunately that doesn't work in this case, my input is HTTP post > data, which is a single line of URL-encoded text which I have to > decode into multiple par