Re: [dev] mret

2011-06-01 Thread sqweek
2011/5/26 Kamil Cholewiński : > BTW offtopic, anyone knows of a decend CLI music player that doesn't > use any freaking curses UI (like mpc/mpd) *AND* doesn't try to build a > database (like moc)? Like mh, but for tunes. m9u is probably about as simple as it gets. Though technically it's not even

Re: Playing music (was: Re: [dev] mret)

2011-05-28 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 5/26/11, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hmm. How do you "buffer linewise"? I knew that everything worked fine on sane ttys, but I just don't understand how FIFOs are buffered and thus not what happened if you tried to read from a pipe with less than 512 bytes written to it. I'm back on Li

Re: Playing music (was: Re: [dev] mret)

2011-05-27 Thread hiro
I still don't get the whole idea. http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/m9u/

Re: Playing music (was: Re: [dev] mret)

2011-05-27 Thread Andrew Hills
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:22 PM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hmm. How do you "buffer linewise"? I'm 99% sure that means the songs file is a line-delimited list of filenames. --Andrew Hills

Re: Playing music (was: Re: [dev] mret)

2011-05-26 Thread hiro
Hmm. How do you "buffer linewise"? I think sqweek did some nice playlist file system, I can't find it right now.

Playing music (was: Re: [dev] mret)

2011-05-26 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 5/26/11, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > mplayer has the -quiet flag at least, I'm quite sure you can disable > it's interactive features, too. I just don't want to read the man > "page". This. I'm on Windows ATM, but if I recall correctly: xargs -n0 mplayer -slave -quiet &>/dev/null Where

Re: [dev] mret

2011-05-26 Thread hiro
> Being able to queue commands would be nice for the use case > of playing something in mplayer, then realising in the next > few minutes it will come to an end and wanting to append > something else. I'm aware less command-centric media players > can do this, but I am rather fond of mplayer. mpla

Re: [dev] mret

2011-05-26 Thread Nick
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:38:08PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > imo (and stealing some ideas from Kurt) you should have separate boxes > which are filled with the output of the given command; you just type a > command and the box appears and starts to be filled. You can then type > your next c

Re: [dev] mret

2011-05-25 Thread Kamil Cholewiński
Hi, > It would be nice if the textbox can be more 'canvas-like', such as > drawing a horizontal or vertical line to indicate each individual > commands output? Stuff like that. Right now you can embed virtually any Tk widget or any image, simply use the wishpipe. I only started learning Tcl&Tk a

Re: [dev] mret

2011-05-25 Thread Valentin Ochs
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 05:13:00PM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > 2011/5/25 Kamil Cholewiński : > > BTW offtopic, anyone knows of a decend CLI music player that doesn't > > use any freaking curses UI (like mpc/mpd) *AND* doesn't try to build a > > database (like moc)? Like mh, but for tunes. > > mpd

Re: [dev] mret

2011-05-25 Thread pancake
mplayer -shuffle */* On 25/05/2011, at 23:13, Kurt H Maier wrote: > 2011/5/25 Kamil Cholewiński : >> BTW offtopic, anyone knows of a decend CLI music player that doesn't >> use any freaking curses UI (like mpc/mpd) *AND* doesn't try to build a >> database (like moc)? Like mh, but for tunes. > >

Re: [dev] mret

2011-05-25 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, 2011/5/25 Kamil Cholewiński : > It's just an interactive mockup, a prototype, a testbed for ideas, not > meant for immediate consumption. Nice. I've only played with it briefly, but I get its being a mockup: I started building my own terminal in response to the TermKit thread, and I've not r

Re: [dev] mret

2011-05-25 Thread Kurt H Maier
2011/5/25 Kamil Cholewiński : > BTW offtopic, anyone knows of a decend CLI music player that doesn't > use any freaking curses UI (like mpc/mpd) *AND* doesn't try to build a > database (like moc)? Like mh, but for tunes. mpd with either mpc or pimpd2 as client. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] mret

2011-05-25 Thread Kamil Cholewiński
Hi and thanks for your comments. > You are doing it wrong. Mixing code and data is one of the worst > things you can do. Not only for security reasons. [snip] > Plan9 just disables all screen control stuff to just a serial > communication channel. And all the graphical stuff is done on top of > it

Re: [dev] mret

2011-05-25 Thread pancake
You are doing it wrong. Mixing code and data is one of the worst things you can do. Not only for security reasons. Apart that depending on tcl/tk is somewhat sucky. Stetically and in size.. And not really keyboard friendly. The mimetype hint used in termkit is somewhat more elegant, but sucky t

[dev] mret

2011-05-25 Thread Kamil Cholewiński
Hi all, I recently did some UI experiments, and wanted to share the results and ask for insights. It's been long that I've suspected that there must be something fundamentally wrong about depending on emulation of a 1970's piece of hardware in order to give power to our command lines. So far I've