[9fans] Looking for Printed Plan 9 Manuals

2016-05-22 Thread Brian Vito
I am looking to purchase printed editions of the Plan 9 (and/or Unix) manuals, principally the 2nd and 3rd edition manuals. Please contact me if you are willing to part with copies for reasonable compensation. Thanks very much.

Re: [9fans] /acme/edit commands?

2016-05-20 Thread Brian Vito
Skip Tavakkolian <9nut 9netics.com> writes: > all the recipes in /acme/edit/guide start with 'e' command (ee.l). 'e' > starts by looking in /mnt/acme/index for the buffer id of "file"; it > then operates on the corresponding buffer. so the edit commands are > meant to operate in /mnt/acme names

Re: [9fans] /acme/edit commands?

2016-05-19 Thread Brian Vito
Skip Tavakkolian <9nut 9netics.com> writes: > > i misunderstood the original question. as you noted, the Edit command > provides sam-style text editing, which is probably why nobody misses > /acme/edit. i don't think they were in 4ed (at all or for very long); > they were in 2ed, and the comma

[9fans] /acme/edit commands?

2016-05-18 Thread Brian Vito
Are the /acme/edit commands (as discussed in the Acme paper and included with the Inferno version of Acme) included in Plan 9 or plan9port? If not, what is the workflow replacement? Thanks.

[9fans] Inferno hosted on Plan 9 for Raspberry Pi?

2016-03-05 Thread Brian Vito
Has anyone successfully run Inferno hosted on Plan 9 for Raspberry Pi 2? I'm having difficulty getting Inferno to boot directly on my Raspberry Pi 2 (i.e., nothing seems to happen), and so I'm hoping to be able to get Inferno running hosted on Plan 9 (which runs very well for me on the Raspberry Pi

Re: [9fans] raspberry pi model B+

2014-07-17 Thread Brian Vito
Is there a reasonably easy way to set up Plan 9 on the raspberry pi so that the SD card is used only to boot the system, with all actual activity after that run off of a USB hard drive (so as to avoid hassles related to wearing out SD cards, slow/bad SD cards, etc.)? On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:47

[9fans] Web browser on Raspberry Pi

2014-06-30 Thread Brian Vito
Is it possible to get monthra or abaco running on Plan 9 on Raspberry Pi? I have the internet working (I can access the wiki) but I'm not sure how to get the source for either on to the SD card and compile it. Any help would be appreciated.

[9fans] Update Raspberry Pi Steps (Wiki Confusion)

2014-06-29 Thread Brian Vito
I am trying to update my Raspberry Pi, and I've run: replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network The wiki at http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Updating_an_ARM_system/index.html says that I now have to recompile anything which has changed by running 'mk install' in the appropriate directory. Wha

[9fans] 9fans RSS Feed?

2014-06-08 Thread Brian Vito
Is there a working RSS feed that corresponds to the 9fans mailing list? The gmane feeds seem to be at least a few weeks behind, and the groups.google.com feeds, to the extent they exist/work at all, are even more out of date (on a side note, is groups no longer being synchronized with the mailing l

[9fans] Script Available: Acme Chords for AutoHotkey

2014-06-04 Thread Brian Vito
For those times when I have to use Windows, I've put together a short script for AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) that implements Acme's cut, copy and paste mouse chords, available at: https://github.com/bvito/ahk. I thought I would share the script (which is below) just in case it helps any

Re: [9fans] Setting 9pi Start State / Drawterm to 9pi

2014-02-22 Thread Brian Vito
Thank you, that's good to know. What instructions would you suggest I start with for setting up a full cpu + auth + fossil server or mounting the pi file system remotely with 9fs from Windows or Mac OS X? I'm not particularly interested in overclocking, but was curious how Plan 9 might respond if

Re: [9fans] Setting 9pi Start State / Drawterm to 9pi

2014-02-21 Thread Brian Vito
So if I were to want to connect to my 9pi at home from my office, would I have to make the 9pi into a cpu server? I'm looking for the simplest way to be able to have access to my 9pi files/system from another computer (and use the Plan 9 environment while doing so). Also, I was wondering if Plan 9

[9fans] Setting 9pi Start State / Drawterm to 9pi

2014-02-20 Thread Brian Vito
I have recently installed Plan 9 on my Raspberry Pi but I can't seem to figure out how to modify the start state -- while I've configured acme the way I want it and have used the dump command (so I can manually re-load acme with -l and get my system back), I can't find where I set which acme.dump f

[9fans] Acme-style chording in other applications?

2013-12-04 Thread Brian Vito
I'm curious if anyone has experimented with AutoHotKey or Visual Basic for Office to try to get Acme-style chording to work in Windows applications, in particular Word 2007+.

[9fans] Win starting rc?

2013-06-11 Thread Brian Vito
Is there a way to have Acme's Win command start an rc session rather than bash? Also, is it possible to set the bash prompt to PS1=": {\w} %; " if bash is started by Win? Thanks again.

[9fans] Step by step Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS X Setup

2013-06-11 Thread Brian Vito
Has anyone prepared a step-by-step guide to setting up plan9port's Acme Mail in Mac OS X? Everything I can find in the archives is incomplete in some way and I haven't been able to figure out how to set things up. I am using lavabit mail (and could use either POP or IMAP, whichever is easier). Than

[9fans] sam on Windows?

2013-06-10 Thread Brian Vito
What is the current status of sam on Windows? Does anyone have a version that runs under Windows 7? The one from http://ib.wmipf.de/pf9.html doesn't seem to work anymore. Thanks very much.

[9fans] Mouse acceleration under Plan 9

2012-08-02 Thread Brian Vito
If you'll excuse another question from a non-programmer, does Plan 9 use a mouse pointer acceleration algorithm (if so, where would it be documented?) or is it 1:1? Thanks so much.

Re: [9fans] Show/edit acme snarf buffer

2012-07-12 Thread Brian Vito
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

[9fans] Show/edit acme snarf buffer

2012-06-25 Thread Brian Vito
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 ther

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread Brian Vito
On Apr 25, 7:26 am, 23h...@googlemail.com (hiro) wrote: > When only half of the fields of your table have a meaning you're doing > something wrong. And nobody wants to learn motoric motions from some > stupid table. > Things like select are too trivial for this and Snarf can be left out > because e

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread Brian Vito
On Apr 25, 7:26 am, 23h...@googlemail.com (hiro) wrote: > When only half of the fields of your table have a meaning you're doing > something wrong. And nobody wants to learn motoric motions from some > stupid table. > Things like select are too trivial for this and Snarf can be left out > because e

[9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread Brian Vito
I've put together a rudimentary chart of acme chords -- if anyone has any suggestions, revisions, corrections, etc., they would be greatly appreciated. Eventually the chart will form part of an introduction to acme for non-programmers. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1QVUS-qAuuienlTMHdRYkFzSHM

[9fans] devdraw in Mountain Lion?

2012-02-20 Thread Brian Vito
Has anyone tried running sam on Mountain Lion? Devdraw launches for me, but just shows a blank window.

[9fans] Hide devdraw?

2011-12-19 Thread Brian Vito
Are there plans to add a "Hide devdraw"/Command-H function to devdraw on Mac OS X? I'd add it if I could, but I'm not a programmer (just a user of sam).

[9fans] 9vx Binary for Mac OS X

2011-05-04 Thread Brian Vito
Is there any way someone could post a binary of rminnich's vx32/9vx for Mac OS X 10.6/Intel to the bitbucket site at https://bitbucket.org/rminnich/vx32, or provide detailed instructions on how to build it for a non- programmer? I use 9vx 0.12 to run sam, but I am not a programmer, so I haven't b