Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-09 Thread erik quanstrom
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 languages in 1997 and late 2011 on the "goodness line", it should f

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

[9fans] acme multi-line tags (or maybe, efficient message stores)

2011-10-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
After the previous round of arguments about (native plan9) acme multi-line window tags, did anyone ever come up with a patch that at least some people were happy with? --lyndon P.S. Is there any point to keeping mailing list archives any more? With every messsage including the history of every d

Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-09 Thread Nick LaForge
> wut http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/94536#line121

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-09 Thread slash
> i think disk/mkfs is nearly idea for this, and isn't very dangerous.  since > your > new fossil will start empty, you can't overwrite anything in the old fs. How do I generate the proto file? Do I have to go through an archive? Thank you for your patience.

Re: [9fans] acme multi-line tags (or maybe, efficient message stores)

2011-10-09 Thread Paul Lalonde
Not as far as I know. The grief comes with mixed fonts in the same column. As the tag grows it breaks the column layout height. You wind up with the choice of pushing the windows below around (ugly and unusable) or winding up with fractional lines in each window whose font is not the tag font

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-09 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Oct 9 22:34:04 EDT 2011, slash.9f...@gmail.com wrote: > > i think disk/mkfs is nearly idea for this, and isn't very dangerous.  since > > your > > new fossil will start empty, you can't overwrite anything in the old fs. > > How do I generate the proto file? Do I have to go through an arch

Re: [9fans] acme multi-line tags (or maybe, efficient message stores)

2011-10-09 Thread erik quanstrom
> didn't have the time to make that change. That said, I find acme (and > Edit in particular) damned near unusable without multi-line tags now. do you have a particular usage senerio where this is most apparent? - erik

[9fans] two contrib packages

2011-10-09 Thread erik quanstrom
iops- toy language for generateing io patterns (based on the 4k sector discussion) kernelman - charles forsyth's kernel man pages - erik

Re: [9fans] acme multi-line tags (or maybe, efficient message stores)

2011-10-09 Thread Paul Lalonde
I often keep an Edit I'm refining in a separate tag line for easy selection. But the real use was in keeping commands that need chorded parameters, so my debugger sessions, for example, keep a line of "list print break" etc, so I can chord in the parameter easily. That way I don't have to construc