Sorry, didn't mean to come off as insisting you had to do it my way (I am guilty of hacking all kinds of things into my own samterm); just wanted to point out there are other ways besides adding a new command to sam.
> The next step is add an option (or better an environment variable) > to use the rio snarf buffer directly. There is a patch for this floating around somewhere: perhaps whoever wrote it can chime in. Below is a quick illustration of the other thought I had, having label reflect the most recently topped buffer, in case you are or anyone else is interested. umbraticus diff -u /sys/src/cmd/samterm/main.c ./main.c --- /sys/src/cmd/samterm/main.c Thu Apr 30 10:24:09 2020 +++ ./main.c Mon Jul 19 23:36:12 2021 @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ current(Flayer *nw) { Text *t; + int fd; if(which) flborder(which, 0); @@ -160,8 +161,13 @@ buttons(Up); t = (Text *)nw->user1; t->front = nw-&t->l[0]; - if(t != &cmd) + if(t != &cmd){ work = nw; + if((fd = open("/dev/label", OWRITE)) >= 0){ + fprint(fd, "sam %s", (char*)name[whichmenu(t->tag)] + 1); + close(fd); + } + } } which = nw; } @@ -170,11 +176,15 @@ closeup(Flayer *l) { Text *t=(Text *)l->user1; - int m; + int m, fd; m = whichmenu(t->tag); if(m < 0) return; + if((fd = open("/dev/label", OWRITE)) >= 0){ + write(fd, "sam", 4); + close(fd); + } flclose(l); if(l == which){ which = 0; ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf1e211daf823c0e0-M2dfbf5d65c86fcf89c315484 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription