acme experiment

[Russ Cox]

as an experiment, i have changed acme on mac so that shift-button-3 searches backward.

feedback welcome.

[Russ Cox]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 2:51 PM silas poulson <sila...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> On 15 Jun 2024, at 17:37, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote:
>
> as an experiment, i have changed acme on mac so that shift-button-3 searches backward.
> feedback welcome.

Thanks Russ, very useful!

Any plans to extend this to other platforms?

Unfortunately, on X11 historically both Alt and Shift have meant "turn click into button 3". I'm reluctant to change that, but I suppose we could. I don't know who out there has Shift baked into their fingers rather than Alt.

Best,

Russ

[silas poulson]

> On 15 Jun 2024, at 17:37, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote:
>

> as an experiment, i have changed acme on mac so that shift-button-3 searches backward.
> feedback welcome.

Thanks Russ, very useful!

Any plans to extend this to other platforms?

Silas

[silas poulson]

Ok - would you be able to send a diff for X11 ?

I've attempted to apply a similar change on linux but am finding it quite difficult.

Thanks,
Silas

[Russ Cox]

Hi Silas,

It's difficult for me to try to test on X11 right now, but I think the diff would look something like this: https://go.dev/play/p/uZBMkSg2ahH. If you get it working and send it back I'm happy to apply it.

While I'm writing, I also pushed a commit removing a leftover debug print from acme.

Best,

Russ

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[Pedro L Ramos]

Hi Russ,

Are you planning to eventually port this change to the go version of acme as well? (9fans.net/go/cmd/acme)

BR

Pedro L Ramos

No dia 16/06/2024, às 03:24, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> escreveu:



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[silas poulson]

On Sunday 16 June 2024 at 03:24:03 UTC+1 Russ Cox wrote:

It's difficult for me to try to test on X11 right now, but I think the diff would look something like this: https://go.dev/play/p/uZBMkSg2ahH. If you get it working and send it back I'm happy to apply it.

Thanks Russ!

That's pretty much the changes required - only slight problem was that you declared shift twice.

Here's the diff: https://go.dev/play/p/KufFKzw5MjZ

Many thanks,

Silas

[Russ Cox]

I pushed a fix to the acme-on-Mac that handles shift of real 3-button mice now.

I also accidentally included my draft x11 patch, but it looks fine as is:

the declaration of shift in the inner scope is still correct.

So I'll leave it that way.

Best,

Russ