On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:29:24AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM, anonymous wrote:
> > If the only problem is tags, maybe replace them with more common
> > "virtual desktops"? ?If you look at screenshots
> > [http://dwm.suckless.org/screenshots/], there is only one
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM, anonymous wrote:
> If the only problem is tags, maybe replace them with more common
> "virtual desktops"? If you look at screenshots
> [http://dwm.suckless.org/screenshots/], there is only one tag selected
> on each desktop - tags are used as virtual desktops.
I
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:40:25PM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> On 5/17/10, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius
> > wrote:
> >> I just felt that it was weird that the program that draws borders around
> >> my
> >> windows is also a keyboard shortcut h
On 5/17/10, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius
> wrote:
>> I just felt that it was weird that the program that draws borders around
>> my
>> windows is also a keyboard shortcut handler/dispatcher/whatever.
>
> Now dwm draws statusbar for you (if you use dwm)
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius
wrote:
> I just felt that it was weird that the program that draws borders around my
> windows is also a keyboard shortcut handler/dispatcher/whatever.
dwm, as the program that sits between you and other programs, already
has to intercept everyt
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:39:38PM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> On 5/17/10, anonymous wrote:
> > What you mean by user shortcuts? To create shortcut you can configure
> > your window manager. So user shortcuts start with Alt. User should
> > make sure that his shortcuts don't overlap with
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 04:25:45AM +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.
>
Patch (-7 loc) attached. BTW ca
On 5/17/10, anonymous wrote:
> What you mean by user shortcuts? To create shortcut you can configure
> your window manager. So user shortcuts start with Alt. User should
> make sure that his shortcuts don't overlap with default shortcuts of
> window manager. Some kind of standard should be cre
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:22:52PM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> > 1. Window manager
> > 2. Windows.
>3. User shortcuts
What you mean by user shortcuts? To create shortcut you can configure
your window manager. So user shortcuts start with Alt. User should
make sure that his shortcuts
On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:22:52 +
Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> Is it possible to have some program seperate from the WM that receives
> all keystrokes starting with super (and maybe Alt to)?
It is possible to have a program bind specific keystrokes; you probably
won't be able to capture all keys
On 5/15/10, anonymous wrote:
> 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 se
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
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.
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# Kurt H Maier
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.
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
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
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
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
2010/5/14 Kurt H Maier :
> I don't think he cares about it until he can serve google adsense with it.
Every day when I wake up I thank Freyja for my ability to block such
things in my browser, didn't even notice.
Anyways the one idea of his I did like was promoting a suckless
interest in tcc or s
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Samuel Baldwin
wrote:
> I wonder what he calls actual dogmatism?
I don't think he cares about it until he can serve google adsense with it.
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# Kurt H Maier
2010/5/14 Paul Thompson :
> He wrote a blog post about how suckless.org scares him,
> at http://mobiphil.com you could leave the comment
> there for him. According to the post we made him hate unix.
That post is truly hilarious. Apparently pointing out flaws in his
arguments amounts to dogmatism.
2010/5/14 mobi phil :
> well, do it like that... by time you will understand that there are
[ … snip … ]
> that there are better ways to do it... But the same ...
Just run whatever you're doing in a loop? Simple tools are the best,
especially when you can chain them together into something necessa
On Sat, 15 May 2010 00:04:09 +0100
Rob wrote:
> You're too late, he ragequit.
He wrote a blog post about how suckless.org scares him, at http://mobiphil.com
you could leave the comment there for him. According to the post we made him
hate unix.
>> > Yeah, it's easy. Keeping simple is hard.
>> Well, how many time do you preach this sentence one day? Why do you
>> think that other people would be so idiot, that would not know such an
>> obvious think?
>
> Sorry but you look like an idiot.
You're too late, he ragequit.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:53:05PM +0200, mobi phil wrote:
> > Yeah, it's easy. Keeping simple is hard.
> Well, how many time do you preach this sentence one day? Why do you
> think that other people would be so idiot, that would not know such an
> obvious think?
Sorry but you look like an idiot.
On 5/14/10, mobi phil wrote:
>> As others have pointed out, some of your ideas are not so suckless,
>> but I'll respond to the ones I find the most interesting.
> nice to hear that..
>
>>> 1. good tools should have a way to define easily keyboard shortcuts.
>> True. It's quite irritating that some
Yeah, I know wine, counterstrike is working perfectly. I just don't
like the *look* of notepad on that thing.
But about gnuwin, thanks for that, these people are working
painstakingly. A market gap I have not thought of yet!
On 5/15/10, Marvin Vek wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:49:41PM +0200
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:49:41PM +0200, hiro wrote:
> Why don't you port cat to windows?
>
> On 5/14/10, mobi phil wrote:
> >> Btw, for me notepad is one of the greatest windows apps ever built.
> >> This is a really stupid thread!
> >> But good to know that I'm not the only one wasting my time
Why don't you port cat to windows?
On 5/14/10, mobi phil wrote:
>> Btw, for me notepad is one of the greatest windows apps ever built.
>> This is a really stupid thread!
>> But good to know that I'm not the only one wasting my time today.
>
> why don't you port it to linux? :)
>
>
>
>
> --
> rgrd
> Btw, for me notepad is one of the greatest windows apps ever built.
> This is a really stupid thread!
> But good to know that I'm not the only one wasting my time today.
why don't you port it to linux? :)
--
rgrds,
mobi phil
being mobile, but including technology
http://mobiphil.com
Btw, for me notepad is one of the greatest windows apps ever built.
This is a really stupid thread!
But good to know that I'm not the only one wasting my time today.
On 5/14/10, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> too much text, not enough time :P
>
too much text, not enough time :P
> Óðinn above, you are doing something very wrong if you have source
> files that are 400MB. Chop up your files into smaller pieces; you
> mentioned log files earlier, you can have: pizza.log.1, pizza.log.2,
> pizza.log.3 … And why do you need to edit these aforementioned 4GB log
> files anyways? C
2010/5/14 mobi phil :
> Can it open 400MB of source code in under 1 second?
Óðinn above, you are doing something very wrong if you have source
files that are 400MB. Chop up your files into smaller pieces; you
mentioned log files earlier, you can have: pizza.log.1, pizza.log.2,
pizza.log.3 … And wh
> As others have pointed out, some of your ideas are not so suckless,
> but I'll respond to the ones I find the most interesting.
nice to hear that..
>> 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 scrolli
> Yes another sucking bloated program.
I hope you did not suck your vodka already.. I think you are so fixed
on this suck, that you fail to see the forest from the trees.
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:21:18PM +0200, mobi phil wrote:
>> When you are looking some functions or some patters you use gr
On 5/14/10, mobi phil wrote:
> Hello,
Hi
> as I am already here, and time is short in life, I would like to share
> with the community a few suckless.org compatible ideas:
As others have pointed out, some of your ideas are not so suckless,
but I'll respond to the ones I find the most interesting.
Yes another sucking bloated program.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:21:18PM +0200, mobi phil wrote:
> When you are looking some functions or some patters you use grep,
> isn't it? Each time you do grep, the file is loaded into memory, you
> do the next grep again, etc.
No. It's piped into grep. Pipe
every programmer should write their own editor. whether they share it with the
world or not is unimportant. i don't understand why this isn't some unspoken
rule of programmer culture, like a right of passage. (every programmer should
create their own programming language too, but i digress)
>> That ZX Spectrum would actually be awesome.
>>
>> --
>> Marvin Vek
>
> My C64 beats the crap out of any lame Spectrum any day.
Did you install ms notepad on it?
--
rgrds,
mobi phil
being mobile, but including technology
http://mobiphil.com
> That ZX Spectrum would actually be awesome.
>
> --
> Marvin Vek
My C64 beats the crap out of any lame Spectrum any day.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:47:32PM +0200, mobi phil wrote:
> I think you should stick to your notepad on windows, even better, buy
> ZX spectrum, and install your Spartan like tools on it. I think you
> make me a clear image about suckles, and you have a well formed
> welcoming style. I think you d
well,
> You're insane. Comments follow:
thanks for the welcome, I hope you did not mean it..
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, mobi phil wrote:
>
>> 1. good tools should have a way to define easily keyboard shortcuts.
>
> Good tools should have good keyboard shortcuts, change them in the
> sour
> So traditional-vi, nvi, vim, elvis, vile, and busybox's vi aren't
> enough? :)
you mentioned 5 of them. All do the same, nothing more. None could
open a huge logfile for analysis, or none has created me clear control
or monitoring points for the buffer.
>> * Should be able to aggregate files in
>> 3. I am looking for people who would be interested in writing a vim
>> clone. I already called it viq (vi quick)
> I'm interested, but some of the ideas you have seem a little too unsuckless
> (i'll cover what i think in a mo)
> Keep in mind, I'm not trying to be Uriel, this is constructive cri
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 06:01:54PM +0200, 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)
So traditional-vi, nvi, vim, elvis, vile, and busybox's vi aren't
enough? :)
> * Should be able to aggregate files in differ
You're insane. Comments follow:
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, mobi phil wrote:
> 1. good tools should have a way to define easily keyboard shortcuts.
Good tools should have good keyboard shortcuts, change them in the
source if you have to.
> 1.1. Preferably good tools should have at least
> Hello,
hi
> 3. I am looking for people who would be interested in writing a vim
> clone. I already called it viq (vi quick)
I'm interested, but some of the ideas you have seem a little too unsuckless
(i'll cover what i think in a mo)
Keep in mind, I'm not trying to be Uriel, this is constructi
Hello,
as I am already here, and time is short in life, I would like to share
with the community a few suckless.org compatible ideas:
1. good tools should have a way to define easily keyboard shortcuts.
1.1. Preferably good tools should have at least one predefined set of
shortcuts that is compat
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