Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX]

2011-06-21 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 05:53:25PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: i'm not sure what the hard part is. just front the normal input function with one that calls chartorune and rejects anything above codepoint 255. that can't be more than 10 lines of code. that way there is no possibility of

[9fans] Indent ON for sam?

2011-06-21 Thread Anh Hai Trinh
Dear 9fans, I have been toying with the editor sam lately, is there anything like the Indent ON command for acme? If not, how do people deal with indentation? Peace, aht

Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-21 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:26 PM, rbnsw-pl...@yahoo.com.au wrote: --- On Wed, 8/6/11, I wrote in part: I am old enough to remember RFS the Remote File Sharing Protocol on SVR4 that offered access to remote devices, but I don't have that and I'm not aware of whether there are any distributed

Re: [9fans] Indent ON for sam?

2011-06-21 Thread Russ Cox
I have been toying with the editor sam lately, is there anything like the Indent ON command for acme? If not, how do people deal with indentation? sam -a

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread William Cowan
Iruat?? Souza iru.mu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote: better with it... but generally keyboard is much faster on most day tasks, people just don't have the patience to learn it Measuring the keyboard versus mouse speed is such a

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:48 AM, William Cowan wmco...@uwaterloo.ca wrote: Sample tasks at random you say. What is the correct universe to sample if we wish to substantiate the sort of categorical assertions made on this thread? Also, familiar vs unfamiliar tasks using familiar vs unfamiliar

Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-21 Thread rbnsw-plan9
--- On Tue, 21/6/11, Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.com wrote: ... Um, does v9fs remote Linux devices? I find it hard to imagine it would remote ioctls but it makes sense *nix to *nix. Depends on how you configure it.  There is a nodevmap option to the v9fs mount which will instruct it

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread errno
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:20:27 AM Jack Johnson wrote: which is why I find it hard to get hot headed over any of the assertions, but tend toward trusting the research. What research?

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:42 AM, errno er...@cox.net wrote: On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:20:27 AM Jack Johnson wrote: which is why I find it hard to get hot headed over any of the assertions, but tend toward trusting the research. What research? The rabbit hole is pretty deep, but you could

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread errno
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:04:28 AM Jack Johnson wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:42 AM, errno er...@cox.net wrote: On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:20:27 AM Jack Johnson wrote: which is why I find it hard to get hot headed over any of the assertions, but tend toward trusting the research.

Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-21 Thread dave . l
Thanks for the info, but the devices encumbered with ioctls are the tricky ones and even if they can be sorted out I'm sure there are some other traps out there. Too bad there are no RFS gurus lurking here to offer their wisdom on remoting devices. I'm no RFS guru, thank deity, but I did