On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:15:01 -0400 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > > 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. If manual update is acceptable he could add "Get" to the tag line. I guess a simple polling program could be written for acme, but many uses of the selection while you're editing the text would end up overwriting your edit.
