[9fans] plumbing to get files from odd filesystems, and get pages from local manuals

2009-06-17 Thread Jason Catena
Some plan9port plumbing I wrote which may help someone. Using the plan9port plumber to find files in ClearCase VOBs. http://www.evernote.com/pub/catena/public#7d2e9774-964f-423c-96e9-5e8721b1a78d Also plumb man(1) pattern to local manual. New convention "man(1l)" to name eclipsed local manual pa

[9fans] acme programming questions

2009-06-17 Thread Tim Newsham
I've been trying my hand at some very simple acme programming tasks and have some questions. I'm interested in a utility that translate dot into a filename:line-line range and a utility that waits for an acme window to be closed. If I'm reinventing these, I'd love to hear about existing programs

Re: [9fans] Different representations of the same

2009-06-17 Thread Roman V Shaposhnik
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 09:54 +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > >The only drawback so far seems to be the fact that if one > >needs flexibility, then every file becomes a subdirectory. > >Not that it is scary or anything, but it smells too much > >of resource forks (or may be I'm just too easily scared

Re: [9fans] Different representations of the same

2009-06-17 Thread Chad Brown
On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: The only drawback so far seems to be the fact that if one needs flexibility, then every file becomes a subdirectory. Not that it is scary or anything, but it smells too much of resource forks (or may be I'm just too easily scared). it's the o

Re: [9fans] plan9port OS X window labels

2009-06-17 Thread Russ Cox
> label has changed.  However, I could not get this > to work.  Perhaps there are Carbon experts here > who will have better luck. > > http://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/plan9/rev/12502ec69b95 Fixed, thanks to André Günther. Russ

Re: [9fans] plan9port OS X window labels

2009-06-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Jeff Sickel wrote: > On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Russ Cox wrote: > > label has changed. However, I could not get this >> to work. Perhaps there are Carbon experts here >> who will have better luck. >> > > I'm actually just in the process of getting rid of the

Re: [9fans] simple question: multiple rename

2009-06-17 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:01:43 -0400 erik quanstrom wrote: > > I forgot, / is actually illegal. I'm almost (but not quite) certain that \0 > > is legal, and if I understand my emacs correctly you may be able to type it > > as ctrl-space. It displays as ^@ in emacs. > > > > what system call do y

Re: [9fans] Does plan 9 support Simplicified Chinese ?

2009-06-17 Thread Noah Evans
Here's a good starting point if nobody has done anything already: http://9fans.net/archive/2000/08/260 On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Shaowei Wang (wsw) wrote: > What do you mean "support chinese" ? display chinese chars or input chinese > chars? > > If you set the right font rio can display UT

Re: [9fans] Does plan 9 support Simplicified Chinese ?

2009-06-17 Thread Shaowei Wang (wsw)
What do you mean "support chinese" ? display chinese chars or input chinese chars? If you set the right font rio can display UTF-8 encoded chinese chars. And i'm sure about that. input chinese... hmm, may be not yet. Is there a chinese input method in plan9 system? I don't think so. -wsw On Wed

[9fans] Does plan 9 support Simplicified Chinese ?

2009-06-17 Thread xiantingmanbu
HI, everyone Does plan 9 support Simplicified Chinese? if not, I can't use plan 9 into reality,,, or just for a interest. Waiting for a answer as soon as possible

Re: [9fans] Different representations of the same

2009-06-17 Thread Charles Forsyth
>The only drawback so far seems to be the fact that if one >needs flexibility, then every file becomes a subdirectory. >Not that it is scary or anything, but it smells too much >of resource forks (or may be I'm just too easily scared). it's the other way round: they ought to have represented colle