Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-19 Thread Joseph Xu
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 have any > preferences for one package

Re: [dev] [wmii] Firefox new windows

2009-11-23 Thread Joseph Xu
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:11:50AM -0800, Suraj Kurapati wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Yannic Haupenthal > > you might use > > > >        /Firefox.*/ -> sel # and/or > >        /Shiretoko.*/ -> sel > > > > in your tagrules. > > Awesome! This is the best solution. :-) > Please disregar

Re: [dev] [wmii] Firefox new windows

2009-11-23 Thread Joseph Xu
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:11:50AM -0800, Suraj Kurapati wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Yannic Haupenthal > > you might use > > > >        /Firefox.*/ -> sel # and/or > >        /Shiretoko.*/ -> sel > > > > in your tagrules. > > Awesome! This is the best solution. :-) > Please disregar

[dev] include files should never include include files?

2010-01-16 Thread Joseph Xu
A little off topic maybe, hope I'll be forgiven ... I'm reading Rob Pike's C programming style guide (http://www.quut.com/c/pikestyle.html), and the last rule says: -- Simple rule: include files should never include include file

Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] Recommended meta-build system

2010-02-01 Thread Joseph Xu
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:09:28AM +0100, Nicolai Waniek wrote: > On 02/01/2010 10:25 PM, Uriel wrote: > > If you define your personal identity based on the colors of your > > fucking window manager I feel sorry for your pathetic worthless life. > > This is not the first time that you confuse caus

Re: [dev] Presentation slides software

2010-06-29 Thread Joseph Xu
On 6/29/2010 7:42 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.

[dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-11 Thread Joseph Xu
Hi: I switched my main computer to Windows XP a while ago to play some games, and was frustrated with the lack of simple usable IRC clients (among other applications). So I decided to write my own. Since I didn't want to mess with Visual Studio and complicated GUI toolkits, I decided to write

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Joseph Xu
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 12 Jul 2010, at 13:50, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > >> >> On 12 Jul 2010, at 03:33, Joseph Xu wrote: >> >>> Hi: >>> >>> I switched my main computer to Windows XP a while ago to

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Joseph Xu
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2010, at 14:09, Joseph Xu wrote: >> >> Hi Ethan: >> >> Thanks for checking out the software. Sounds like Tk is not as >> cross-platform as it claims. I don't have access to a mac

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-14 Thread Joseph Xu
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Uriel wrote: > The ircfs site t is up now: > > http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs > > ircfs is great, and its gui is great too, and mjl is a great hacker. Thanks for linking this. > > And does the world really need yet another python irc client? And I'm > not sure

Re: [dev] curses samterm

2010-08-02 Thread Joseph Xu
Under what circumstance would you not be able to run sam's gui and have to resort to a curses interface? sam already provides a way to connect the gui to a remote host via ssh to edit files over a slow connection. I've even done this with an old Windows port of sam running locally and a remote

Re: [dev] curses samterm

2010-08-02 Thread Joseph Xu
On 8/2/2010 6:15 PM, Wolf Tivy wrote: I noticed there is a project for a samterm on the project ideas page. Has anyone started on this? It seems like a really good idea. I guess ideally it would be usable without X (in text mode) but would still keep the nice view and selection interface. Luxuri

Re: [dev] curses samterm

2010-08-03 Thread Joseph Xu
x27;s my view on why a curses samterm is a good idea. If noone is interested, I will survive with nano, but if people are Why don't you just use vim? It meets all your requirements and like sam has ed-style commands. interested or if someone has started, I'm willing to throw some time at it.

Re: [dev] curses samterm

2010-08-03 Thread Joseph Xu
On 8/3/2010 11:14 AM, Connor Lane Smith wrote: Hey, On 3 August 2010 09:50, Joseph Xu wrote: Very few people use sam to begin with, even fewer would like the curses interface. I'm guessing no more than 20 people. The best reason not to write a program ever: nobody is using it yet. I

[dev] off topic - awk versions performance comparison

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph Xu
Hi everyone, I was playing around with awk and ran into some surprising data for the function match(s, r), which returns the position of the first match of regular expression r in string s. Here's the test I ran: $ yes | head -1 | tr -d '\n' >/tmp/big $ yes | head -100 | tr -d '\n' >/

Re: [dev] off topic - awk versions performance comparison

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph Xu
On 08/11/2010 07:10 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:01:27AM -0700, Robert Ransom wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:41:30 -0400 >> Kris Maglione wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:14:55AM -0400, Joseph Xu wrote: >>>> Hi everyon

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

2010-08-22 Thread Joseph Xu
On 8/22/2010 12:47 PM, David J Patrick wrote: 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 doe

Re: [dev] [st] Fixed -e with support for spaces

2010-11-26 Thread Joseph Xu
Josh and I were discussing this over IRC. Here's an alternative patch I came up with. It relies on the shell that executes st to parse the arguments, so you can't run a command like st -e "touch arst", you have to run st -e touch arst. This also means you can't have any st arguments after the -e be

Re: [dev] [st] Fixed -e with support for spaces

2010-11-28 Thread Joseph Xu
On 11/28/2010 06:22 AM, Aurélien Aptel wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Joseph Xu wrote: >> came up with. It relies on the shell that executes st to parse the >> arguments, so you can't run a command like st -e "touch arst", you have >> to run s

Re: [dev] Re: sta.li progress

2010-12-20 Thread Joseph Xu
Are there any instructions on how to use this libc with gcc? On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:14 PM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > We don't compile stuff anymore since we have discovered the rc shell :D > > On 10/27/10, finkler wrote: >> On 10/28/10 01:16, Jacob Todd wrote: >>> If someone was go

Re: [dev] Recent vain attempts at suckless Web applications

2011-01-22 Thread Joseph Xu
Here's a little data just to ground things a bit: $ time dash -c '' real0m0.001s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s $ time rc -c '' real0m0.002s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s $ time bash -c '' real0m0.007s user0m0.003s sys 0m0.000s $ time python -c '' real0m0.028s

Re: [dev] Recent vain attempts at suckless Web applications

2011-01-23 Thread Joseph Xu
On 1/23/11, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On 22 January 2011 20:41, Joseph Xu wrote: >> Here's a little data just to ground things a bit: >> >> $ time dash -c '' >> >> real0m0.001s >> user0m0.000s >> sys 0m0.000s >> &g

Re: [dev] [st] New feature idea

2013-04-08 Thread Joseph Xu
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Silvan Jegen wrote: > Sorry to revive this older discussion but I finally found that one > graphical > shell implemented in Webkit that your idea reminded me of. I thought you > might be interested in reading about it (if you haven't already). > > > http://acko.net

Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

2013-04-11 Thread Joseph Xu
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Max DeLiso wrote: > A) That's stupid > B) Therefore OP must be stupid. I don't think you're stupid, because the few times I've had to use cmd.exe, I've thought about this myself. But I do think it's a waste of time. How much do you use the console in Windows? Ver

Re: [dev] [sbase] shell scripts

2013-07-07 Thread Joseph Xu
> Is this a matter of efficiency alone? The C implementation is straightforward and short. It doesn't get simpler if you wrote it in a higher level language. Your shell script is IMO much harder to understand.