Re: wily in cygwin

[email protected] wrote:
> On Wed Jun  7 23:13:44 CDT 2006, [email protected] wrote:
>> I just started using Wily and had some questions/comments.  I'm running 
>> it in cygwin (which is probably the source of my problems).
>>
>> Is it supposed to display "$PWD" in the tag?  Seems like that's an 
>> expression that should be evaluated somehow.
>>
> 
> you need to kill the PWD environment variable; e.g.
> 	bash$ PWD= wily
> although i noticed that wily is fooled by variables with values like ".".
> 

Yes, I can get rid of the "$PWD" in the tag if I start wily like that 
... but, opps, now I have to change $HOME too.  And who knows what else. 
  Is this really a feature?

[snip]
>> Shouldn't I be able to right-click on "../" and open a window in the 
>> parent directory?
> 
> you should.
> 

I seem to have a talent for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, 
with the wrong assumptions.  It's a cygwin thing.  I happened to be in 
the cygwin root, "/", but knew that I was really in "C:/cygwin" and 
expected that right clicking would jump up to "C:".  Well it doesn't do 
that in the cygwin shell either (you have to go to "/cygdrive/c" to get 
to the "C:/" directory).

[snip]

Yes I actually starting looking at acme with the plan9port on linux. 
Wily was attractive because it would run both on linux and windows (via 
cygwin).  It's not that I like windows, it's just that I'm stuck with it 
for some things.  I also looked at the Inferno/SAC port on windows, 
however they only run plan9 commands, not native commands.

Comparing wily with acme; there are some nits: I like wily because the 
up/down arrow controls cursor movement.  Although I like acme because 
the scroll wheel works.

Wily seems better behaved, for instance try right clicking on "Program 
Files/" in acme (Inferno/SAC).  Too bad!  But wily doesn't complain. 
(No, I don't like spaces in directory names, but they're there and I 
have to deal with it).

The big feature that acme seems to have is the "win" command.  There are 
a lot of important programs that are textually interactive.  Consider 
gpg, mutt, or configuring the linux kernel before compilation.  In acme, 
I wonder why "Win" isn't in the top tag, it seems a natural for the 
center-left cord.

Why not use "Copy" instead of "Snarf"?  Familiar names ease the transition.

Cheers,
Don