Re: [dev] curses samterm

On 8/3/2010 12:41 AM, Wolf Tivy wrote:
> I find it useful to be able to edit files using my regular editor
> after I break X, or if I don't feel like starting it up.

X doesn't break that often for me.

> I like curses stuff even in X because it is nice to open up an editor
> and have it tempoarily reuse the terminal window without spawning
> another and thrashing my layout. Furthermore, as a bit of an

Usually I'll have acme always running and just plumb stuff to it.
Actually you can almost live inside acme like you can live inside emacs.

> aesthetic concern, curses editors inherit the color configuration of
> the terminal, which is convienient if you are into making things look
> nice.
>
> It was suggested before that a curses interface would be a good
> idea, so I am assuming that I am not the only person who would
> appreciate it.

Very few people use sam to begin with, even fewer would like the curses
interface. I'm guessing no more than 20 people.

>
> I might be happy with the p9p samterm, but I can't figure out how
> to get it standalone from the rest of p9p, or what kind of

Not sure you can. Why don't you want p9p? It's got a lot of cool stuff
in it.

> aesthetic variations are possible (font?, color?). These issues are

I think you can change the font by setting the font environment
variable, but there's no syntax highlighting because Pike doesn't like
it. I used to think that was an important feature also, but after using
acme for a while I don't miss it at all. I also don't miss wasting a lot
of time obsessively trying to write highlighting scripts for custom
languages in vim.

> not that big on thier own, but combined with the whole X-dependant
> thing, it just doesn't seem worth it.
>
> So that'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.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joseph Xu<josephzxu_AT_gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, August 2, 2010 5:30 pm
> Subject: Re: [dev] curses samterm
> To: dev_AT_suckless.org
>
>> 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 linux host with p9p sam. So the only reason is if you
>> don't
>> want to run X on your local computer, which seems ridiculous
>> nowadays.
>> Rob Pike wrote sam in part because he didn't like having to
>> cursor
>> around in vi.
>>
>
Received on Tue Aug 03 2010 - 10:50:29 CEST