Re: [9fans] deroff, pic

2008-10-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> It might also be worth pointing out that troff does just fine with `` and '' > as curly quotes, so there's not a lot of need to use the Unicode ones. > In fact, in the default fonts I find that the Unicode ones don't typeset > particularly well -- they are too compressed. > > So a more complete

Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor

2008-10-23 Thread yy
> Well, since noone helped me I started to play with it to find at least > some solution. I found that when I write > /old/c/new/ [ENTER] > . > somewhere, highlight it (2 lines) and 2-1 click on Edit in the window > with my file, then it works. > Is there anything simpler? > Ruda > > You could als

Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions

2008-10-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> regexp(6) seems to know only greedy regular expressions. So does > probably awk, sed, grep, ..., since these are based on that regexp. > My question is what to do if one needs non-greedy regexps. russ has a great writeup on this. http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/ i think it covers all your questio

[9fans] non greedy regular expressions

2008-10-23 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello regexp(6) seems to know only greedy regular expressions. So does probably awk, sed, grep, ..., since these are based on that regexp. My question is what to do if one needs non-greedy regexps. Also, is there anything like submatch extraction, counted repetition of regexp (like {3,5}), (looka

Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor

2008-10-23 Thread Rudolf Sykora
2008/10/22 Rudolf Sykora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/8/19 Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> 06. Search and replace with confirmation at each item >> >> Put the cursor at the top of the file. >> In the tag, type and select >> >>Edit .+#0/old/c/new/ >> >> and middle click it. That will sea

Re: [9fans] deroff, pic

2008-10-23 Thread Russ Cox
It might also be worth pointing out that troff does just fine with `` and '' as curly quotes, so there's not a lot of need to use the Unicode ones. In fact, in the default fonts I find that the Unicode ones don't typeset particularly well -- they are too compressed. So a more complete solution is

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-10-23 Thread Russ Cox
> Thus, I was thinking that perhaps if you could > lay the ground rules for how new things could > be added to your canonical plan9port tree these > little annoyances could be dealt with. The ground rules are: you make it work with as few changes as possible from the Plan 9 original, and then you

Re: [9fans] deroff, pic

2008-10-23 Thread cej
2) Some suggestions to pic: a rounded rectangle (groff has an arc attribute), lines to connect the ends of an arc to its effective center (useful for making pie charts), a fill color attribute. Any objections? Would love to see it implemented. Please, consider also PS fill pattern. Cross f

Re: [9fans] deroff, pic

2008-10-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> 1) Should deroff -w interpret curly quotes (“”)? Right now it doesn't, > so spell is treating any words with either character as spelling errors. ; 9diff deroff.c /n/sources/plan9//sys/src/cmd/deroff.c:963,968 - deroff.c:963,970 return chars[c]; switch(c){ case

Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9?

2008-10-23 Thread matt
why not just ssh into plan9 and use that ? btw. no IWP for me :( bugger bugger bollocks