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[9fans] troff and times roman, need for accented characters 2 12 (8/31/2012 2:44:31 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, I again bumped into this awkward topic. Being Czech I need to write with quite a few accented characters. Being a physicist I write some math, too, and I use unicode characters often. Plan9 as... rudolf

[9fans] rc vs sh 54 21 (8/28/2012 9:00:12 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, I am just curious... Here http://9fans.net/archive/2007/11/120 Russ Cox writes he uses bash as his default shell. Does anybody know the reason? Is this for practicality within the linux environm... rudolf

[9fans] refer ignoring dates > 1999 (Y2K issue) 2 12 (8/2/2012 10:20:20 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, as I bumped some time ago into the problem that refer only considers as dates (i.e. years) numbers starting with 19, but not 20, I want to ask whether someone has corrected this issue yet. [if yo... rudolf

[9fans] sam, shorten dot by 1 line 11 16 (8/1/2012 4:37:50 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, having a multiline dot in sam, I wanted to shorten it by one line at its end. I tried ..,.+0- which did not work. I had to write ..,.+1-2 or, hopefully equivalently ..,.+-2 While I understand... rudolf

[9fans] plan9port rio and keyboard shortcuts 2 26 (7/10/2012 9:26:19 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, In p9p's rio there is a possibility to cycle over windows with left_alt-tab. Has anyone thought about / managed to add some more shortcuts, e.g. such that would run a program like dmenu? (Do you st... rudolf

[9fans] troff pm and dlink postprocessors 2 21 (6/24/2012 8:20:01 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, by chance, has anyone any experience with the 'pm' (by Kernighan & Wyk) or 'dlink' (by Groves & Brailsford) troff postprocessors? Does anybody know how to get hold of the latter (should be in some... rudolf

[9fans] troff ms keeps: a way to force all pending images to be printed 0 18 (6/3/2012 4:12:52 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello everyone, please, does anybody know of a way how to force troff using the ms macros to print all so far unplaced floating images (or blocks of anything), i.e. images entered like this: ..KF ..BP pi... rudolf

[9fans] insert 'control a' into a text in acme 2 28 (6/1/2012 6:12:59 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, please, how does one insert a ^A character when writing a text in (p9p) acme? In vi(m) one uses ^V^A... Thank you! Ruda ... rudolf

[9fans] ligatures in troff 2 12 (2/9/2012 12:07:39 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, when I try to use any ligature in troff (on p9p, but if I remember correctly also on p9) , such as \(fi, I don't get it. Instead I see: tr2post: :6735 :WARNING: cannot find glyph, rune=0x66 stoken= tro... rudolf

[9fans] refer for plan9port 2 15 (2/6/2012 10:17:23 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, does anybody know about a 'refer' version for plan9port? (I know there is a version for plan9 in the contrib, but I generally run p9p...) (Also: I can't directly use the GNU refer, since it stumbles ov... rudolf

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[9fans] refer for plan9port 2 15 (2/6/2012 10:17:23 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, does anybody know about a 'refer' version for plan9port? (I know there is a version for plan9 in the contrib, but I generally run p9p...) (Also: I can't directly use the GNU refer, since it stumbles ov... rudolf.sykora (401)

[9fans] ligatures in troff 2 12 (2/9/2012 12:07:39 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, when I try to use any ligature in troff (on p9p, but if I remember correctly also on p9) , such as \(fi, I don't get it. Instead I see: tr2post: :6735 :WARNING: cannot find glyph, rune=0x66 stoken= tro... rudolf.sykora (401)

[9fans] /tmp dissappearance 6 12 (5/20/2012 4:56:11 PM) comp.os.plan9 I have no idea how, but my /tmp disappeared, making editing files with sam impossible. I tried to bind -c $home/tmp /tmp but i get the complaint that the mounted directory doesn't allow creation. Any advice? ... burton.samograd (30)

code highlighting 7 20 (6/6/2012 10:55:16 AM) comp.os.plan9 How can I add support for C code highlighting to Sam or Acme? ... faifgnu (24)

[9fans] sam, shorten dot by 1 line 11 16 (8/1/2012 4:37:50 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, having a multiline dot in sam, I wanted to shorten it by one line at its end. I tried ..,.+0- which did not work. I had to write ..,.+1-2 or, hopefully equivalently ..,.+-2 While I understand... rudolf.sykora (401)

Mouse acceleration under Plan 9 3 36 (8/2/2012 8:57:44 AM) comp.os.plan9 If you'll excuse another question from a non-programmer, does Plan 9 use a mouse pointer acceleration algorithm (if so, where would it be documented?) or is it 1:1? Thanks so much. ... brian.vito (11)

[9fans] Acme: how to search only in selection 8 19 (8/9/2012 1:11:01 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hi list, how do I perform right-click search only in highlighted range? Use case: while editing C-like code (PHP), I highlight whole function b= y=20 clicking on opening brace and would like to sear... dexen.devries (142)

[9fans] sam command language question 3 18 (8/20/2012 11:12:19 AM) comp.os.plan9 Tis the season for exotic sam command language questions, though mine is not that exotic. I want to edit some xml (yes I know) and capitalise all the labels in it. I only want to do this once so I don't ca... steve5361 (821)

[9fans] rc vs sh 54 21 (8/28/2012 9:00:12 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hello, I am just curious... Here http://9fans.net/archive/2007/11/120 Russ Cox writes he uses bash as his default shell. Does anybody know the reason? Is this for practicality within the linux environm... rudolf.sykora (401)

[9fans] rdbfs(4) woes 4 13 (8/29/2012 2:07:13 AM) comp.os.plan9 9fans, I dusted off rdbfs(4) today to dig into a kernel issue and ended up running into what looks like the same issue bwc reported back in 2005: barstow% import cons /mnt/consoles barstow% rdbfs -d -t ... sstallion (13)