Re: [dev] rebooting the web (it was: surf rewrite for WebKit2GTK)

2014-10-31 Thread Kartik Agaram
(Pulling in an old message across the subject change. Hopefully I got it right.) On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Daniel Camolês wrote: > Breaking compatibility would be essential. Let's pretend we could do it. Would you break compatibility once and then fix everything and then try again to be c

Re: [dev] surf rewrite for WebKit2GTK

2014-10-25 Thread Kartik Agaram
> No, that was not what I was talking about. In this browser discussion, > I am not interested in ways to understand complexity as your proposed > solution. I think the fact that the browser needs to be this huge is a > signal that things are very, very wrong, and a new solution for > application d

Re: [dev] surf rewrite for WebKit2GTK

2014-10-25 Thread Kartik Agaram
> Am I alone? Is there any hope out there? I'm working on this problem. I think the solution is white-box testing from the ground up, so that software encodes not just the rules about what to do but the specific scenarios that the programmer considered. Because we only encode rules and not intenti

Re: [dev] [stali] What happened to stali?

2014-10-15 Thread Kartik Agaram
> Your ls is aliased in your shell startup scripts. > Unset it or execute the program directly. Ack, you're right.

Re: [dev] [stali] What happened to stali?

2014-10-15 Thread Kartik Agaram
I've cloned all the repositories enumerated in http://morpheus.2f30.org and I could build sbase and ubase. What order should I build the rest in, to get to mk?

Re: [dev] [stali] What happened to stali?

2014-10-15 Thread Kartik Agaram
I just got sbase cloned and built without trouble. Awesome! But I don't know how to run ls: $ ls usage: ls [-1adFilrtU] [FILE...] $ ls . usage: ls [-1adFilrtU] [FILE...] $ ls -d . usage: ls [-1adFilrtU] [FILE...] $ ls * usage: ls [-1adFilrtU] [FILE...] $ ls -l usage: ls [-1adFilrtU] [FILE...] $ l

[dev] email hygiene (was: Ideas for using sic)

2014-10-02 Thread Kartik Agaram
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Eric Pruitt wrote: > How about creating new threads instead of replying to messages with > something completed unrelated to the topic at hand? Normally, I can deal > with bad email habits.. Sorry, realized after I hit send.

Re: [dev] Ideas for using sic

2014-10-02 Thread Kartik Agaram
I asked Quentin this off-list: > > http://c9x.me/irc > > > > "Following suckless habits, I plan to provide some extensions as patches." > > > > I'm new here. Can you think of any pointers describing this and/or other > > suckless habits? And got back a great list: > Here is a list of things I th

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-24 Thread Kartik Agaram
> > automatically insert the comment sign at the beginning of the next line > > How does this work in vim? Based on 'textwidth', lines are wrapped automatically to the next line as you type. If the lines start with a comment leader like '#', the leader is copied into the next line along with whit

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-24 Thread Kartik Agaram
> I'd like to draw attention to plover steno knight as well. Link in case someone else is curious: http://openstenoproject.org Fascinating, thanks. Kartik http://akkartik.name/about

[dev] downloadable archives

2014-09-19 Thread Kartik Agaram
I just joined this list. Are there downloadable archives somewhere (ideally in mbox format) for offline browsing? Kartik http://akkartik.name/about