On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, at 04:25, Ben Hancock wrote:
> Do you find you're able to sweep lines as easily using it in acme as with a
> physical mouse?
can't really say: i'm not a heavy acme user, and i haven't had a mouse in
years. shinobi does feel pretty close to a thinkpad, so you should be able to
for a little change of pace, my only desktop input device is
https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi
it's a fairly faithful recreation of
https://support.lenovo.com/solutions/pd005137-thinkpad-usb-keyboard-with-trackpoint-overview
but with mechanical keys and other accommodations one expects from a
> the sources of Alef language?
9fans is probably a better mailing list for this.
alef was included in the plan9 second edition; that would be a good place to
start. see https://seh.dev/plan9-2e/ for some pointers and a complete iso
(including alef sources) in the 'archive'.
you can mount tha
> they're now properly linked from iwp9.org
as a minor note, it seems that anchor names on the page sometimes
disagree with links in the navigation strip.
> ./abaco.sh: 7: webfs: not found
> ./abaco.sh: 10: abaco.bin: not found
abaco.sh expects those two bits to be in $path. try mk install.
> - Leonard
oleg
> [...]
I'd like to point out that mice (or rather, pointing devices) come in
different flavours. IBM's trackpoint, is, in my view, rather different
device from usability perspective, and most of the mouse critique in
this thread or elsewhere doesn't apply to it, while many of the stated
benefits
> ... creating a general-purpose Acme event parser in C.
you may want to look at plan9port's acmeevent[1].
--
oleg
[1] http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/acmeevent.html
> Most ThinkPad T23 (included mine) were sold with a
> WaveLAN mini-PCI card [1].
Oh, so I just was unlucky. Sorry for the confusion.
> although (all together now) I never got sound working.
I used to have sound (with one of the ac97 drivers), but not in the
current setup. I couldn't get acceptable sound quality out of it
though.
T23's sound system per se is relatively good, or rather, not as
disgusting as in most laptops.
If a
> can anybody recommend any plan9 compatible notebook?
Based on 9fans' suggestions, I got an IBM T23.
This machine is great, both for plan9 and generally.
T23 (and other thinkpads from its era) also has the most
plan9-friendly input devices I've seen. I can perform all the chords
with just my thu
> I am trying to get 9vx compiled on SnowLeopard 10.6.2
Andre has some problems posting to 9fans, but he says this should fix
your problem:
http://qcx.be/attic/9vx-osx-fix.patch
-Oleg
hi,
i've had this behavior some time ago and haven't solved that, and now
Akshat Kumar is experiencing exactly the same, but as the venti at
faul is running on his mail server, he's unable to post here.
as soon as venti starts, an icachewriteproc can be observed which
produces high load, making t
12 matches
Mail list logo
