Re: [dev] A dmenu that includes all additional features

2011-09-12 Thread David J Patrick
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:05:16PM +0100, Rob wrote: > I don't think this would be worth it, suckless tools are supposed to be > lightweight, even someone who hasn't seen the code before can make > changes, they don't have to be an expert at C, so merging a few lines > here and there is no big deal

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-13 Thread David J Patrick
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 08:49:45PM +0200, Jakub Lach wrote: > To add another one, I'm not entirely sure LCD vs CRT > eyes health debate is settled. > I'm fairly sure the "Cathode ray cannon pointed at your head; is it safe ?" debate is well over.. djp

Re: [dev] A language similar to Markdown that sucks less

2010-08-22 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-08-22 12:47 PM, David J Patrick wrote: pandoc extends markdown and has some table support, I think.. or maybe it doesn't.. anyhow, it's a noble effort, best of luck, keep us posted, djp

Re: [dev] A language similar to Markdown that sucks less

2010-08-22 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-08-22 12:37 PM, Alexander Teinum wrote: What doesn’t work well for me, is that I cannot easily extend Markdown. The design that I propose is simpler and more strict. All tags work the same way. The input is close to a data structure, and it doesn’t need complex parsing. The drawback is that

Re: [dev] A language similar to Markdown that sucks less

2010-08-22 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-08-22 11:52 AM, Alexander Teinum wrote: I didn’t want to start a completely off-topic discussion in the typesetting thread, so I created a new thread. I’m playing with the idea of creating a language that is simple to read like Markdown, but that has a stricter syntax. It looks like Common

Re: [dev] Usable typesetting system?

2010-08-22 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-08-22 07:15 AM, Martin Kopta wrote: Hi everyone, I wrote my bachelor thesis using LaTeX and now I am going to write my master thesis. I would rather avoid TeX and everything TeX based this time. consider writing in markdown and transforming via pandoc. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc

Re: [dev] flo - a command line program for organizing events, to-dos, and deadlines

2010-08-17 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-08-17 02:57 AM, Alexander Teinum wrote: I don’t have time to try it out right now, but I see how an interactive interface might be practical. Don't have time right now, hence that task management application ? ;-) taskwarrior is also purely cli at the moment, but working towards adding

Re: [dev] flo - a command line program for organizing events, to-dos, and deadlines

2010-08-16 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-08-14 08:18 AM, Alexander Teinum wrote: I have been working on a program that makes it easy to keep myself, and perhaps others, in check. It’s inspired by suckless. I now consider it stable enough to share it with you. Sounds intriguing, and I'm going to check it out, but I have to admit

Re: [dev] plumb 1.0

2010-07-15 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-07-15 03:37 AM, Mate Nagy wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:40:43PM -0400, David J Patrick wrote: how about "piper" ? why not "piper maru" at that srsly, nice names so far, how about comments on the ware :D sounds really cool Mate, but just plain over my head. I&

Re: [dev] plumb 1.0

2010-07-14 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-07-14 01:25 PM, Uriel wrote: While this seems like an interesting project, I would strongly urge you to change the name, "Plumb" is already used by a way too similar project and will just cause confusion: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/plumb how about "piper" ? djp

Re: [dev] Presentation slides software

2010-07-03 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-06-29 07:42 AM, Nick wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:34:52PM +0200, Uriel wrote: I'm looking for a minimally sane way to generate presentation slides, ideally using something similar to markdown and capable of generating decent-looking html (and hopefully) pdf. S5 looks quite decent. I

Re: [dev] Presentation slides software

2010-06-29 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-06-29 08:14 AM, David J Patrick wrote: markdown in, H5 out ... uhhh S5, that is..

Re: [dev] Presentation slides software

2010-06-29 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-06-29 06:34 AM, Uriel wrote: I'm looking for a minimally sane way to generate presentation slides, ideally using something similar to markdown and capable of generating decent-looking html (and hopefully) pdf. pandoc http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ markdown in, H5 out I'm hoping to tr

Re: [dev] test

2010-04-13 Thread David J Patrick
On 10-04-13 11:50 AM, Charlie Kester wrote: On Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 07:24:31 PDT Anselm R Garbe wrote: ignore Since I read your message and have now replied, does that count as an ignore fail? yes I, otoh, ignored the message... no I didn't I read it AND the replies.. and fail :/ djp

Re: [dev] Distribution

2010-01-18 Thread David J Patrick
Jonathan Slark wrote: I was wondering what distros people use on this mailing list? I've tried a lot and I'm not happy with any of them. All I need is a toolchain/dev utils with minimal X install. I would then compile all the apps/dwm myself and install using the package manager. you must

[dev] suckless IRC ?

2009-11-13 Thread David J Patrick
where ? djp

Re: [dev] wmii can save settings on close, can't it ?

2009-11-13 Thread David J Patrick
Quoting Yannic Haupenthal : Hey, I don't get it, what settings do you mean? Settings, how the windows are arranged? yes, how windows are arranged and what's running in them. I can take me a couple of days to get everything arranged just nice, it like the best work-environment I have ever used,

Re: [dev] wmii can save settings on close, can't it ?

2009-11-13 Thread David J Patrick
Quoting Kris Maglione : On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:38:51PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote: because I don't relish the idea of rebuilding them every time. No. In theory you could script it, but it's not a problem in practice because settings are usually stored in initialization

[dev] wmii can save settings on close, can't it ?

2009-11-12 Thread David J Patrick
because I don't relish the idea of rebuilding them every time. djp