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[ #plan9 has the idiomatic draw(3) / libdraw doesn't it - but I'm refering to #plan9port on openbsd ]

Planning on a bit o' #plan9... #plan9port #openbsd

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to create a mastodon file server that serves #9P?
I’d love to integrate it in my #plan9port setup as well as in my #9legacy system.

Fun with #plan9port, editing paths on fish shell, inconsolata-g that funny really happy feeling #acme gives me

So I was trying to figure out how I could evaluate some #python from #acme without having to rely on 'Send' or other things like that. I wanted something a bit nicer. I ended up looking into #jupyter. After a bit tweaking, now I can select some python from any window and with >jupy9 this gets executed on an #ipython kernel, with the results nicely printed to another acme window. Because it's a kernel behind the scene, it also means I can have other windows running ipython consoles to interact with whatever I send to the kernel. It's pretty fun :)

Now I need to crawl back outside of this rabbit hole to remember what I was trying to do in the first place...

relevant py and sh scripts for #plan9port in case that's useful for someone else:

https://git.bleu255.com/plan9port/commit/fb6ab0504f888ea36bcd535380fdc7e32612488c.html

#Plan9port finally packaged for #Guix for real.

The version I had on Git last night was the wrong one, but now I've fixed it. I'll still have to port over my scripts, but now I can finally use #Acme on Guix SD.

#Plan9

Sooooo... the whole point of adding bdf2subf into #p9p was to get acme to display the Terminus font properly :3

Research has shown that using any other font is :unacceptable:

However, since the last time I used #acme it looks like that there has been lots of changes to #plan9port in relation to font display. The current favoured way seems to be running fontsrv that exposes most of the system's fonts to p9p via 9pfuse and that is also able to do on-demand conversion of these fonts to #Plan9's subfont format. But somehow it really does not look good here with the latest Terminus TTF. Sadly X11 PCF fonts are not supported by fontsrv either. There is a subfont Terminus conversion floating around but it was not quite correct either. Thankfully, running bdf2subf on the latest BDF version of Terminus fixed everything.

For those who want the conversion I use and instructions on how to make theirs: https://git.bleu255.com/plan9port/file/font/terminus/README.html

bdf2subf 1.3.1.1 released :D

I started using #acme again and am planning to maintain a local collection of tweaks/changes to #plan9port (though probably 99.9% acme related). I'm starting by adding bdf2subf which is a handy #Plan9 BDF to subfont converter.

The latest version I could find is 1.3.1 from 2003 and I did minor changes to make it build nicely with #p9p's INSTALL script.

https://git.bleu255.com/plan9port/commit/2b5318c96f51eda9e0d1078c337ca66b852cf597.html

Will update thread about why this was somehow super important :)