On Jun 25, 5:24 am, 9f...@hamnavoe.com (Richard Miller) 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? > > /dev/snarf > > > If so, is there a way to have that > > window automatically update when the snarf buffer changes? > > Not quite automatically. You can write a program which polls /dev/snarf > using fstat(2); qid.vers will be updated when the file is written to. > > > would > > it be possible that by editing the snarf buffer window to edit the > > contents of the snarf buffer itself > > Just as with any acme window, the underlying file will only change > when you click Put. Again if you're willing to do some programming, > you could monitor changes in the window using the acme event file > and do the Put automatically.
Thank you -- these are useful suggestions. Is there an equivalent to / dev/snarf when using plan9port under Mac OS X? [bv]
