[9fans] Trouble finding current window directory in acme

2016-11-26 Thread Chris McGee
Hi All, I’m in the process of writing an interactive tutorial for plan9/acme. I’m hoping to demonstrate how to execute a command on a text file that uses the current selection as input. According to the acme manual page there should be a /dev/acme/acme (or /mnt/acme/acme) directory that repres

Re: [9fans] Trouble finding current window directory in acme

2016-11-26 Thread Antons Suspans
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:41:21PM -0500, Chris McGee wrote: > How does one get the /dev/acme/acme directory to be present in a normal > document window? Alternatively, is there a simple way to find the index of > the current acme window so that I can use the /dev/acme/x directory? Use /mnt/acme

Re: [9fans] Trouble finding current window directory in acme

2016-11-26 Thread Chris McGee
Thanks, that will work. Chris > On Nov 26, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Antons Suspans wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:41:21PM -0500, Chris McGee wrote: >> How does one get the /dev/acme/acme directory to be present in a normal >> document window? Alternatively, is there a simple way to find the i

[9fans] Using plot(1)

2016-11-26 Thread Chris McGee
Hi All, I’m trying graph and plot out. I have some questions. Is there a way to pipe the output of plot or do I need to pull that out of the screen/window buffer? Also, is there a way to plot on top of an existing image? I tried making a simple plot routine to draw a red unit circle with x and