Re: [9fans] troff pm and dlink postprocessors

2012-06-24 Thread simon softnet
I've used pm; it's great. I can't remember where i found the source though ... maybe in plan 9's source somewhere .. or was it heirloom? On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello, > > by chance, has anyone any experience with the 'pm' (by Kernighan & > Wyk) or 'dlink' (by Gr

Re: [9fans] troff book

2011-12-12 Thread simon softnet
It's funny how this reply came at the right time for me. I'm writing a thesis proposal and was wasting all this time trying out different latex templates. Simon. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > Having read the replies, I thought I'd offer slightly different advice. > Y

Re: [9fans] troff book

2011-12-02 Thread simon softnet
fully have the best of both worlds: the elegance of troff syntax and the neatness of TeX output. Is anyone interested in helping me out? Simon. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:24 PM, simon softnet wrote: > I have written my bachelor's thesis (80 pages with graphs, tables, > diagrams, equations

Re: [9fans] troff book

2011-12-02 Thread simon softnet
I have written my bachelor's thesis (80 pages with graphs, tables, diagrams, equations, etc..) in pure troff -me. It went as smooth as I could ever hope for. LaTeX is much more difficult to use, IMO. Simon. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:02 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:45:24AM -0800, John

Re: [9fans] troff book

2011-12-02 Thread simon softnet
Hi, I would suggest the -mpm macros: https://131.106.3.253/publications/compsystems/1989/spr_kernighan.pdf It is basically the same as -ms. You can build it in plan 9 troff and you can actually use the resulting binary with heirloom troff as well. Best of luck, Simon. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:02

Re: [9fans] OAuth

2011-10-13 Thread simon softnet
I have only used OAuth for sending private twitter messages with a program, so I can only provide info through the twitter perspective. There is a handshake that needs to take place, during which your client program exchanges (token, key) pairs with the authentication service. Say you want to acce

Re: [9fans] Sad News

2011-10-13 Thread simon softnet
I loved Dennis Ritchie, along with all the folks from "The labs", even though I wasn't even born at the time of their greatest breakthroughs. Greatest inspiration I ever had comes from the mentality of those people in Bell Labs. Rest in Peace, and all my respect. Simon. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:

Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-10 Thread simon softnet
It's not necessary that you're feeding a troll, in my opinion. I actually agree with the idea that C is enough. I don't understand why you need garbage collection ... why do you need to have garbage in the first place? Just because time goes by does not mean everything should keep on changing you k

Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-09 Thread simon softnet
wut On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 3:12 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Oct  9 02:16:11 EDT 2011, pmarin.m...@gmail.com wrote: >> In 15 years Tcl has been improved a lot, like any other  language. > > that might not be relevant to ron's point.  i think this is almost > a geometry problem.  if you plot

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-16 Thread simon softnet
If it wasn't for this cancerous web applications ordeal, I would be happy with OpenBSD & rio, and maybe with pure Plan 9 in the future .. Simon On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:17:14 +0200 > simon softnet wrote: > > >

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-16 Thread simon softnet
to exist. > > On Saturday, July 16, 2011, simon softnet wrote: > > Please, don't let plan 9 and linux be interrelated in the future in any > way ...Future plan 9 users have the opportunity to experience novel > user-space paradigms.Why do they have to be sucked into the linux w

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-16 Thread simon softnet
Please, don't let plan 9 and linux be interrelated in the future in any way ... Future plan 9 users have the opportunity to experience novel user-space paradigms. Why do they have to be sucked into the linux world? Simon On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Robert Seaton wrote: > > one might find ht

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

2011-07-11 Thread simon softnet
I don't like it, but it's just my humble opinion :) On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > hi, folks, > > please, look at this: > http://www2.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/ubuntu_widgets.png, and share > your opinion; > the main thing is the right-hand side with the slider >

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-03 Thread simon softnet
Which distro's version of "text utils" ? hehe .. Let's not start an anti-linux flame war now ... On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) < lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > > I don't see any meaning in Linux "adopting" some set of plan 9 > > commands... > > Have you read the so

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread simon softnet
Plan 9 is good because it is a system designed with such principles in mind from the start. I don't see any meaning in Linux "adopting" some set of plan 9 commands...vanity.. On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:36 PM, dexen deVries wrote: > On Saturday 02 July 2011 20:23:02 Eli Cohen wrote: > > I have used

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-17 Thread simon softnet
I was replying to guih.lino _at_ gmail.com On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:35 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > Who are you replying to again? This thread has become total nonsense. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:03 PM, simon softnet wrote: > > I still think your

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-17 Thread simon softnet
I still think your contribution is null and irritating. First of all, it's too long and it doesn't say anything of essence. What's all this mumbling about your girlfriend and gamers? Thanks for suggesting that I try and use vim in unix. I am 26 years old now. I have been using vim since I was 17 i

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-17 Thread simon softnet
Some people's contribution to this discussion is really null and irritating.. They go like "Pfff Apple did this for the customers! oh yeah, and by the way, the keyboard is faster in general" Well, at least apple has indeed made the effort to publish a research! Attracting customers or not, this doe

Re: [9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-26 Thread simon softnet
do you even realize that plan 9 / unix is supposed to be an IDE? On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Typically the way to do this is to create your own public fork, and > > then send a pull request to the maintainer of whoever you forked from > > since hg has the distributed m

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-24 Thread simon softnet
dformat is your friend - for this diagram On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:32 PM, roger peppe wrote: > On 24 May 2011 03:53, Russ Cox wrote: > >> I would like to try to get something running which > >> would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style > >> I have a load of rather complex drawin