Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Jochen Sprickerhof
* Markus Wichmann [2021-10-14 20:24]: On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 12:28:52PM -0400, Greg Reagle wrote: FYI Useful, but a lot of wasted screen space on my monitor: man dwm MUCH better! I see the entire man page: tcvt -c 4 man dwm You know, if you were trying to shill the program, you m

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 21/10/15 07:03, Martin Tournoij wrote: > Note that mandoc has a default of 78 if not set; GNU man (and maybe some > others?) do indeed take up the full width by default, but mandoc won't take up > more than 78. I've mostly used GNU man, and from my briefly trying other versions of man I didn't

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Rudy Dellomas (dther)
On 21/10/15 06:23AM, Greg Reagle wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, at 9:56 PM, Rudy Dellomas (dther) wrote: > > [...] > > `tmux new ';' splitw -h man dwm` > > No, this does not do what tcvt does. Have you actually tried it? Nor does > the MANWIDTH variable. > You're right, sorry, my mistake. I r

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Greg Reagle
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, at 9:56 PM, Rudy Dellomas (dther) wrote: > `tcvt` is a python terminal multiplexer, which is a bit excessive for the > purpose of saving terminal columns. Even forgoing that GNU man has > $MANWIDTH, why not just use vertical split tmux? It's faster (written in > C) and is much

Re: [dev] Tiny VMs and parsers

2021-10-15 Thread an2qzavok
buzzard.2 is a classic: https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1992 Despite being an entry to a competition, the code itself is actually barely obfuscated, just very terse, and it comes with pretty good design docs. Stack machines and forth are rather good in general. I started by reading https://users.

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Sebastian LaVine
On Thu Oct 14, 2021 at 9:56 PM EDT, Rudy Dellomas (dther) wrote: > [...] why not just use vertical split tmux? It's faster (written in > C) and is much more versatile. This would do more or less the same: > > `tmux new ';' splitw -h man dwm` For me, this command splits into two shells, only one of