Re: [dev] my suckless.org compatible ideas: vim like mapping for any tools, C scripts, vi clone

2010-05-15 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 5/16/10, Kurt H Maier wrote: > hjkl for scrolling or cursor movement shouldn't require any metakeys > at all. personally I don't care if they don't work on other key > layouts; something like that is either trivial to repair or the app is > broken. My point was that I do not like having to edi

Re: [dev] stali and static surf binary

2010-05-15 Thread Ersin Akinci
You're correct, my intentions are quite different and have nothing at all to do with performance concerns. I'm trying to manifest a certain aesthetic vision: I like the act of downloading static binaries and deleting them without worrying about dependencies, complicated directory structures, etc.

Re: [dev] my suckless.org compatible ideas: vim like mapping for any tools, C scripts, vi clone

2010-05-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
hjkl for scrolling or cursor movement shouldn't require any metakeys at all. personally I don't care if they don't work on other key layouts; something like that is either trivial to repair or the app is broken. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] my suckless.org compatible ideas: vim like mapping for any tools, C scripts, vi clone

2010-05-15 Thread anonymous
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 04:22:27AM +0400, anonymous wrote: Also removing Alt keybindings will simplify dmenu code: there will be only one switch instead of two, one "default" branch instead of two, less manipulation with masks and everytihing else related.

Re: [dev] my suckless.org compatible ideas: vim like mapping for any tools, C scripts, vi clone

2010-05-15 Thread anonymous
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:56:43PM +, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 15/05/2010, anonymous wrote: > dmenu uses alt for a couple of bindings. Apparently ctrl binds are > shell-like and alt binds are vim-like, which is a bit weird (also > M-p). I'd prefer to remove the alt ones. That said I do li

Re: [dev] stali and static surf binary

2010-05-15 Thread anonymous
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:11:48PM -0400, Ersin Akinci wrote: > Thus, dynamic libraries would still be used, but at least they would > be duplicated, independent, and isolated for each program that needed it. What problem you are trying to solve? You want to make binaries independent from environ

Re: [dev] my suckless.org compatible ideas: vim like mapping for any tools, C scripts, vi clone

2010-05-15 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 15/05/2010, anonymous wrote: > This behaviour is compatible with unix keybindings > (http://unix-kb.cat-v.org/). Most (all?) suckless tools follow these > rules so there are no problems. Maybe they should be documented > somewhere? dmenu uses alt for a couple of bindings. Apparently ct

Re: [dev] my suckless.org compatible ideas: vim like mapping for any tools, C scripts, vi clone

2010-05-15 Thread anonymous
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 08:02:57PM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > > 1. good tools should have a way to define easily keyboard shortcuts. > True. It's quite irritating that some tools use the arrow keys for scrolling, > others use hjkl (which doesn't make sense on all keyboards) and one > has to

[dev] stali and static surf binary

2010-05-15 Thread Ersin Akinci
Hi all, I've dropped by in the IRC channel once or twice but that's unreliable, so I thought that I'd send an e-mail to the list, as well. I discovered suckless through stali a week ago when I was searching for information on statically building WebKit browsers for--believe it or not--a new, all-

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-15 Thread anonymous
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 06:11:08PM +0200, pancake wrote: > Check t/ui.c and you will understand why SwkWindow is not global variable. > > Do somebody noticed this file? I mean..the UI can be done not only by code.. > also in ascii art. About the other questions..I think i'm not the > right person

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-15 Thread pancake
On Sat, 15 May 2010 10:48:38 +0100 Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On 14 May 2010 07:41, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:02:47AM +0200, pancake wrote: > >> Is simpler to just change a pointer. We can make global. I will do the > >> change tomorrow. > > > > I will review the current

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-15 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 14 May 2010 07:41, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:02:47AM +0200, pancake wrote: >> Is simpler to just change a pointer. We can make global. I will do the >> change tomorrow. > > I will review the current state today and provide my comments in detail. I had a look through ev

Re: [dev] my suckless.org compatible ideas: vim like mapping for any tools, C scripts, vi clone

2010-05-15 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 14 May 2010 17:01, mobi phil wrote: > 3. I am looking for people who would be interested in writing a vim > clone. I already called it viq (vi quick) I added a comment to mobiphil's blog. Cheers, Anselm