Re: [dev] wmii and floating controls

2009-11-20 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:08:13AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: >> No, tagrules works exactly how I want. And for zenity (which is /all/ >> modal dialogs) it's fine. But I can imagine running into a case where >> I want to float THIS instance

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Christoph Dibak
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:20:53PM +1100, Alex Ghitza wrote: > However, it is simply not true that it "requires you to use the web > interface to do anything useful". I have been using Sage extensively > for teaching and research for the past two years and I spend 95% of my > time in the command-l

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:46:40AM +0100, Christoph Dibak wrote: But is there a sort of replacement for maple? Does any less-sucking or open-source software support the maple-worksheet (.mw) format? Don't Maple worksheets, by definition, suck more? At least, that's my impression of anything ba

Re: [dev] wmii and floating controls

2009-11-20 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:30:10AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: I'll probably cave and just compile 3.9 soon enough but it's so untidy to have to do that every time I install a system and I'm not up to being maintaining packages yet (and they wouldn't take a 'beta' anyway). Is there no way in 3.6

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
suckless calculators: bc, hoc On 11/20/09, Alex Ghitza wrote: > In the end, it depends on what you want to do with your CAS. If you > want something very precise, there is good specialised software around > (Pari was already mentioned for number theory, GAP is the way to go > for group theory, M

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread pancake
I always find a limitation to use dmenu instead of gtk entry text because you cannot edit the URL in a decent way. markus schnalke wrote: [2009-11-19 18:57] Moritz Wilhelmy [...] editing text boxes within an external editor. You took the words right out of my mouth. meillo

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2009/11/20 pancake : > I always find a limitation to use dmenu instead of gtk entry text > because you cannot edit the URL in a decent way. There is a patch already for this (written by Gottox) which I consider to make mainstream as well for surf integration (apart from vertical items and an overh

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread Kai Hendry
I use a scary Firefox extension "It's all text!" to get my text area editable in vim. Perhaps something like double clicking a textarea (I don't care for editing input type=text), would simply launch $EDITOR on it.

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:20:32AM +, Kai Hendry wrote: > I use a scary Firefox extension "It's all text!" to get my text area > editable in vim. > > Perhaps something like double clicking a textarea (I don't care for > editing input type=text), would simply launch $EDITOR on it. > > yes, s

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread pancake
We can also use $EDITOR to edit the URL address. 12:16 < pancake> (get uri, write in file, launch $EDITOR, set contents of file in clipboard, set uri) A cool thing would be to extrapolate this functionality to also edit cookies and post data. Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread Michael
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 14:15, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > There is a patch already for this (written by Gottox) which I consider > to make mainstream as well for surf integration (apart from vertical > items and an overhaul of the Key handling). Hello, Anselm, can you describe why you don't want to

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread crap
That's a *great* idea. I don't really like to edit my url with dmenu anyway... liked the GTK box better and I think editing it with vim would be a lot better than GTK boxes. Moritz On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:10:41PM +0100, pancake wrote: > We can also use $EDITOR to edit the URL address. > > 12:

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread Tadeusz SoĊ›nierz
Methinks editing such a small thing like url with vim is a bit too much. However, idea of editing postdata and cookies sounds really good to me. Regards On 20-11-2009 13:23:00, c...@wzff.de wrote: > That's a *great* idea. > I don't really like to edit my url with dmenu anyway... liked the GTK > b

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2009/11/20 Michael : > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 14:15, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> There is a patch already for this (written by Gottox) which I consider >> to make mainstream as well for surf integration (apart from vertical >> items and an overhaul of the Key handling). > > Hello, Anselm, can you de

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread Michael
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 15:47, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Aehm I was saying vertical will become mainstream... Sorry, got to read more English. Happy to hear it, thanks.

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:51:41 +0300 Michael wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 15:47, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > Aehm I was saying vertical will become mainstream... > > Sorry, got to read more English. Happy to hear it, thanks. > I also read the original message as "will take it upstream (but no

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread David Tweed
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:23:35PM -0600, A.J. Gardner wrote: >> >> I'm interested in math and CASs, but my opinions on available software >> are ill-formed and mostly ignorant. Does anyone else here have an >> interest in this topic, broadl

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:23:35PM -0600, A.J. Gardner wrote: > Anyone know of any suckless math software out there in the tubes? As for algebra, the king of the hill is without doubt LAPACK. But since Fortran is nowadays seldom used, few people can tell if it "sucks in the sense of suckless" (?).

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread David Tweed
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:23:35PM -0600, A.J. Gardner wrote: >> Anyone know of any suckless math software out there in the tubes? > > As for algebra, the king of the hill is without doubt LAPACK. But since > Fortran is nowadays seldom used,

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:53:47PM +, David Tweed wrote: > FWIW, my understanding is that the LAPACK library must have an API > which conforms with a reference Fortran implementation, but there are > various versions implemented in various languages (Fortran, C, CUDA, > etc). This is true. But

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread David Tweed
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:53:47PM +, David Tweed wrote: >> FWIW, my understanding is that the LAPACK library must have an API >> which conforms with a reference Fortran implementation, but there are >> various versions implemented in va

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 11/20/09, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:23:35PM -0600, A.J. Gardner wrote: >> Anyone know of any suckless math software out there in the tubes? > > As for algebra, the king of the hill is without doubt LAPACK. But since LAPACK is about floating point computations, it has n

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:57:24PM +, David Tweed wrote: > I was pointing out more how the simple-minded software metrics would > condemn you to around about the level of performance acheived by the > reference LAPACK (white bars) in the paper referenced, which to my > mind suggests there's a f

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread David Tweed
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:57:24PM +, David Tweed wrote: >> I was pointing out more how the simple-minded software metrics would >> condemn you to around about the level of performance acheived by the >> reference LAPACK (white bars) in

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:56:07PM +, David Tweed wrote: > I think it's just a difference in when we'd use words like terrible. Well, being on a suckless list, I tend to agree with suckless' definitions of "terrible". Perhaps all this could be elaborated from a different angle. Most of the pe

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:53:47PM +, David Tweed wrote: As for the code "quality", I can see the code driving certain people on this list mad because it deliberately doesn't compute things in the simplest way and fewest lines in order to do things like acheive close to optimal cache blocking

Re: [dev] wmii9menu shows "foo" at top left

2009-11-20 Thread Suraj Kurapati
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:29:55PM -0800, Suraj Kurapati wrote: >> >> I see a gray "foo" string inside the first item in wmii9menu > > Works for me. Also, `hg grep -r tip foo` doesn't show any results. Thanks for fixing this! http://hg.suckl

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread A.J. Gardner
> As a personal anecdote: I was reading a good book about numerical > computation the other day. Everything was nicely derived and all that. But > when it came to the C library that the respected professor had developed, I > couldn't but think: this is absolutely terrifying. I mean, the code exampl

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2009/11/20 Kris Maglione : > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:23:35PM -0600, A.J. Gardner wrote: >> >> I'm interested in math and CASs, but my opinions on available software >> are ill-formed and mostly ignorant. Does anyone else here have an >> interest in this topic, broadly speaking? If so, do you hav

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

2009-11-20 Thread Yannic Haupenthal
Kris Maglione wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:31:16PM +0100, markus schnalke wrote: >> [2009-11-13 20:00] Yannic Haupenthal >>> >>> &>/dev/null >> >> Smells like bashism. >> >> Use >> >> >/dev/null 2>&1 >> >> instead. > > It's actually a csh-ism. zsh does it, too, but I don't think bash d

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-20 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 11/20/09, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Why not? I think it should be possible to have very minimalist and > specialized CAS', they managed to do that in the 50s and 60s, why not > today? > ah good old reduce