commit 209c805a1943cecb7e45e765d2a8e223a038b815 (patch)
parent cd1030a242a7b194921a17faf4df2ee6f6e892a8
Author: Alex Karle <alex@alexkarle.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:59:56 -0500
gopher: Add notes on acme(1) usage
This is my first commit written from within acme(1).
Am I doing this right? Is this thing on?
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+Acme Notes
+==========
+
+Day 1: Getting plumbing via mouse3 to work
+------------------------------------------
+Sun Feb 27 23:17:12 EST 2022
+
+I've been mucking around with acme(1) recently and.. it's really
+cool. The plumber is next-level awesome and I've been trying
+to emulate it in tmux(1).
+
+Of course, I've been using acme(1) via plan9port too as I go. While
+I don't love the mouse usage, it's an interesting exercise in
+simplicity.
+
+The main reason I'm writing this note is that out-of-the-box on
+OpenBSD the plumber *didn't work*! So I wanted to document
+how I got it set up.
+
+TL;DR: the plumber(4) is it's own service. Make sure to start it
+before you start acme(1):
+
+ $ 9 plumber
+ $ 9 acme
+
+And that's it! Took me 20+ minutes to figure it out :/ Without it
+mouse-3 is limited to file names, which is much less useful than
+man-pages, URLs, etc...
+
+
+Day 1: Getting a monospace font
+-------------------------------
+Sun Feb 27 23:52:47 EST 2022
+
+This one was more of a plan9port quirk. So acme(1) very clearly
+has a `-f` flag for fonts... and a bit of poking around the
+internet showed that if `fontsrv` is running, I _should_ be able
+to render system fonts (in this case GoMono). However, the big
+catch was that while fontsrv(4) presents itself to the host at
+/tmp/ns.cpt.:0/font, acme(1) wants to access it via /mnt (which
+is odd, but I'm sure there's a reason for it). So, monospace fonts
+like so:
+
+ $ 9 fontsrv # one time only
+ $ 9 acme -f /mnt/font/GoMono/12a/font
+
+The `a` version of 12 is nice (without it it looks ragged).
+
+(p.s. the reason I noticed this was that I couldn't align the ---
+underscores for the headers!)
