Re: [9fans] plan 9 regexp

2009-06-04 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:43, Martin Neubauer wrote: * J.R. Mauro (jrm8...@gmail.com) wrote: here's a pointer to the previous discussion of ssam, which does exist for unix: http://9fans.net/archive/2003/10/309 Unfortunately, I can't get it to build. It looks long un(der)maintained. I haven

Re: [9fans] p9p venti problem

2009-06-12 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jun 11, 2009, at 23:34, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:00 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: I can't help with this in particular, but QEMU does some really low-level hackery to the point where it wouldn't compile with GCC 4, so it's possible something like that is going on her

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-01 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:46, Charles Forsyth wrote: I think Tog's conclusions (the single set of studies put forth whenever this thing comes up) are poorly made ... it turns out that there is rather older work that supports much the same conclusion, which i probably saw mentioned in HCI

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-01 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:58, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: [...] but I'm also missing big things like how to quickly navigate through to specific parts of a file and how to reduce redundancy of typing and movement. Here's how I navigate through my various files in acme: The old standard, t

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 8, 2009, at 15:00, "Devon H. O'Dell" wrote: I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot. But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally o

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 8, 2009, at 16:05, Josh Wood wrote: On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). Fontforge is the way I know about, also, and will give

Re: [9fans] data analysis on plan9

2009-07-09 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 9, 2009, at 14:40, hugo rivera wrote: Hi, since I discovered plan 9, about two years ago, I've been constantly amazed by its simple yet quite powerful design. From one year now, I am looking forward to move to plan 9 as my main OS, but I am not able to do so because it lacks the data

Re: [9fans] data analysis on plan9

2009-07-09 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 9, 2009, at 15:34, ron minnich wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Jason Catena wrote: I'd also be interested in knowing whether gnuplot or an equivalent is yet ported to Plan 9. Ron Minnich et al. seem to prefer gnuplot, and reported that they generated data for it and used i

Re: [9fans] first timer - editing plan9.ini

2009-07-22 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 19, 2009, at 22:29, Corey wrote: On Sunday 19 July 2009 19:12:50 Skip Tavakkolian wrote: The few minutes spent learning ed(1) will be well repaid. You'll be one of the smartest guys on your block. i second that. learning it has been one of the best investments of my time since

Re: [9fans] Recursive structural expressions?

2009-08-21 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Aug 20, 2009, at 21:01, erik quanstrom wrote: Here's an example. Let's make the syntax extra pukey: @#, where # is 1-9, defines a `named procedure', which is the same thing as putting something in braces in Sam. x/.*\n/ @1{ ( @1 ) | @1 ( @1 ) ( ) | } x/re/ repeatedly sets . with matc

Re: [9fans] Recursive structural expressions?

2009-08-21 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:24, Russ Cox wrote: Regular expressions, in the strict formal sense, have an important property: they completely express the set of patterns that can be searched for in a single linear-time pass through the text. That is, they have an associated linear-time performan