Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 24 May 2011 20:25, Sir Cyrus wrote: > In that case, best of luck to you lot! Though surely a core utilities > project with this same philosophy in mind _has_ to exist somewhere...? Not that I've found. Simple hackability isn't often an aim for software. On 25 May 2011 00:57, hiro <23h...@goog

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread hiro
Maybe most people on earth aren't masochists and try to do something more productive instead?

[dev] Re: [dwm] dwm-hg, layouts, setfocus and pertag patch

2011-05-24 Thread Bogdan Ionuț
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 18:53, Bogdan Ionuț wrote: > Hello guys, > > I'm using dwm-hg aka dwm 5.9 with dwm-5.8.2-pertag_without_bar.diff, and I > have a problem with layouts and setfocus "feature" (commit 7e2a8fec8d6c). > Firefox by default is using tag 9, so go to tag 9 and set monocle layout, >

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Sir Cyrus
In that case, best of luck to you lot! Though surely a core utilities project with this same philosophy in mind _has_ to exist somewhere...?

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Troels Henriksen
Sir Cyrus writes: > Not too clued in on coreutils alternatives, but what's wrong with > busybox? Enormously ugly code (IMO worse than GNU coreutils, but in a different way), and not much hackability. It's designed for something much different than sbase. -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Sir Cyrus
Not too clued in on coreutils alternatives, but what's wrong with busybox?

Re: [dev] Re: sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Rafa Garcia Gallego
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > Remotely reminds me of http://code.google.com/p/aoeui/ which also is > pretty lightweight, has UTF8, is binary-safe, and has infinite > undo. ~7KLOC, no curses dependency. This reminds me of my very own sandy[1]. Sorry for the blatant

[dev] Re: sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Kurt H Maier writes: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Connor Lane Smith wrote: >> Looking forward to it. imo we need a new editor... > > I like this: > http://www.stabie-soft.com/sre/re.html > > it's no sam, but for short one-off edits (or even as a pager) I like > it. Remotely reminds me of

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Tue, 24 May 2011 13:12:39 +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: I don't understand why so few people on this list are interested in Minix3. ~5k LOC for a POSIX-compatible kernel that can run most of the software you need on a Unix box sounds nice to me. I'm secretly very fond of Minix. I remember ge

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 24 May 2011 12:57, Rob wrote: > I'm not sure whether moving up a directory will always work, what if > you're in $HOME and do > rm -r /tmp/dir1 ./dir2 Ugh, you're right. That means we'll have to do the never-quite-sure buffer allocation stuff in rm as well. It's getting tiring having to write

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Rob
On 23 May 2011 20:08, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 5/23/11, Rob wrote: >> Finally, I have an editor in the works, unfinished, but I plan to show >> you lot at some point though. > Interesting. More details, or show me the code. What's novel about him? Nothing novel I'm afraid, I'm still waitin

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 24 May 2011 12:54, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 24 May 2011 11:45, Pierre Chapuis wrote: >> If you push that to the extreme you want to understand how the kernel >> works too. So you should make sure those tools work on Minix3 so that >> you can achieve "big picture" understanding. > > Fair p

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 24 May 2011 11:45, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > If you push that to the extreme you want to understand how the kernel > works too. So you should make sure those tools work on Minix3 so that > you can achieve "big picture" understanding. Fair point, though since we're pushing for a POSIX subset they

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Mon, 23 May 2011 11:05:55 +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: So where does this fit in? Okay, this is basically my computing tactic: simplifying my operating system to the point where I can actually understand what on Earth is going on. When I use a system like Ubuntu and Gnome, when shit breaks

Re: [dev] sbase

2011-05-24 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 24 May 2011 07:00, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Now my alarm bells ring. Why is getopt() a good idea? What's wrong > with making no assumptions and checking flags with strcmp like we did > in suckless tools? I understand why ARGBEGIN { } ARGEND is no option > for the -- case, but I really can't see

Re: [dev] AdvanceMAME in dwm

2011-05-24 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi, On 24 May 2011 10:17, alphachi wrote: > I can use AdvanceMAME in dwm before a few days. > When I update to the latest nvidia-driver,  the blackscreen occured after > running AdvanceMAME. > I think it's the problem of nvidia-driver, but when I use the other window > manager, for example, enlig

[dev] AdvanceMAME in dwm

2011-05-24 Thread alphachi
I can use AdvanceMAME in dwm before a few days. When I update to the latest nvidia-driver, the blackscreen occured after running AdvanceMAME. I think it's the problem of nvidia-driver, but when I use the other window manager, for example, enlightenment, AdvanceMAME is OK. Is it the problem of dwm?