> > Using either/both acme under Plan 9 and/or Mac OS X via plan9port, is > > there a "file" that can be opened in acme that displays the current > > contents of the acme snarf buffer? If so, is there a way to have that > > window automatically update when the snarf buffer changes? Basically, > > I'm wondering if there is a way to duplicate the functionality that > > was generally present in old Macintosh text editors under the show > > clipboard command. Finally, if this functionality is available, would > > it be possible that by editing the snarf buffer window to edit the > > contents of the snarf buffer itself (as was possible in Nisus's old > > editor QUED/M)? > > isn't there a snarf file in the filesystem served bu rio?
it doesn't have the properties the op requested. a read at eof doesn't hang until the contents of the file have changed. - erik
