Re: [dev] [edit] Introducing edit, a simple text editor

2023-09-27 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi Arthur, I tried to build your project, but it failed for me: termbox2.h:2209:22: error: storage size of ‘sa’ isn’t known termbox2.h:2345:46: error: ‘struct sigaction’ has no member named ‘sa_handler’ termbox2.h:2345:44: error: invalid use of undefined type ‘struct sigaction’ All the best, Dan

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread Daniel Littlewood
I tried to respond to the original question the other day but failed to set up text mode correctly. ugh. > What would be the point of using minimalist software if > bloated and excessively complex programs completely satisfy > all my needs? I think there are a couple of reasons. Not all of them a

Re: [dev] bump copyright years?

2023-02-08 Thread Daniel Littlewood
I would also be in favour of removing the dates. For actively developed software, copyright expiry is a sort of fantasy concept. By the time author 1 has been dead for 70 years, the software has probably had thousands of authors who remain alive. I only use dates like that to get a rough idea of wh

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-12 Thread Daniel Littlewood
My impression so far with acme is that it fills the "IDE" gap much more than the "text editor" gap. I watched a screencast by Russ Cox (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M) and the appealing features were mostly around co-ordination of windows rather than the contents of the windows themsel

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-12 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Acme looks extremely neat. Mouse chording is a strange concept (which doesn't play nicely with my laptop mouse), but the idea of building an IDE around customised short shell commands is really appealing. As for text editing specifically, the idea of piping a bu

[dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-11 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi all, There was a recent chat about cat -v & single-purpose programs which has been rattling around my head for the last few weeks. There are *many* bloated code editors (atom, vscode, etc.), but most people usually present either emacs or vim as an alternative. I can't see these as any less blo

Re: [dev] Sxmo presentation at AlpineConf (Sat May 15, 14:30 UTC)

2021-05-15 Thread Daniel Littlewood
It was earlier today, the recording on youtube is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOW6APA4sTY&ab_channel=proycon Really interesting presentation! I've been wondering for a long time whether a little creativity could make terminal apps more functional on mobile. If I can figure out how to mak

[dev] [st] Patch/feature request - redraw terminal on resize

2020-10-24 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi all, I have noticed a feature from tmux that I would like to have in vanilla st. The behaviour is that when the screen resizes, the window is redrawn to fit the new size. In vanilla st, if I make the window smaller then output that was previously drawn there is blank. If I'm running a program l