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

From: hiro <23hiro_AT_googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:15:59 +0000

Huh?

What menu are you talking about? I don't use a menu for copying and pasting.
What window manager are you using to get into full-screen mode?

On 7/13/10, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> On 13 Jul 2010, at 18:33, 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.
>
> I have some trouble taking any Inferno GUI seriously when its
> clipboard won't communicate with the host. The only means of cutting,
> copying, or pasting is a menu, which I shouldn't need to say is far
> worse than key-bindings. No way to copy from some apps (e.g. wm/man)
> is another nasty. That said, plumbing URLs could be nice. It saves
> coding link detection into the client, at least.
>
> Also, after putting Inferno into full-screen mode, how do you get it
> out?
>
>>
>> And does the world really need yet another python irc client? And I'm
>> not sure what makes merp particularly 'suckless' (whatever anything
>> written in Python can be 'suckless' is very questionable).
>>
>> But I do praise the choice of Tk for the gui.
>>
>> uriel
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, hiro <23hiro_AT_googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> The old wmii community probably knows that one well enough, but for
>>> all the others I'd like to promote ircfs from Mechiel Lukkien. It
>>> runs
>>> on inferno and includes a 9p server and tk client.
>>> Sadly his site is currently down, but here's a paper from him:
>>> http://4e.iwp9.org/papers/ircfs.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
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