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ACME(4)								       ACME(4)

NAME
       acme - control files for text windows

SYNOPSIS
       acme [ -ab ] [ -c ncol ] [ -f varfont ] [ -F fixfont ] [ -l file | file
       ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       The text window system acme(1) serves a variety of files	 for  reading,
       writing, and controlling windows.  Some of them are virtual versions of
       system files for dealing with the virtual console; others control oper‐
       ations  of  acme itself.	 When a command is run under acme, a directory
       holding these files is mounted on /mnt/acme (also bound	to  /mnt/wsys)
       and  also  /dev; the files mentioned here appear in both those directo‐
       ries.

       Some of these files supply virtual versions of services available  from
       the  underlying environment, in particular the character terminal files
       cons(3).	 (Unlike in rio(1), each command under acme sees the same  set
       of  files;  there  is not a distinct /dev/cons for each window.)	 Other
       files are unique to acme.

       acme   is a subdirectory used by win (see acme(1)) as a mount point for
	      the  acme	 files associated with the window in which win is run‐
	      ning.  It has no specific function under acme itself.

       cons   is the standard and diagnostic output file for all commands  run
	      under  acme.   (Input  for commands is redirected to /dev/null.)
	      Text written to cons appears in a	 window	 labeled  dir/+Errors,
	      where  dir  is  the directory in which the command was run.  The
	      window is created if necessary, but not until text  is  actually
	      written.

       consctl
	      Is  an  empty  unwritable	 file  present only for compatibility;
	      there is no way to turn off `echo', for example, under acme.

       index  holds a sequence of lines of text, one per  window.   Each  line
	      has  5  decimal  numbers, each formatted in 11 characters plus a
	      blank—the window ID; number of characters (runes)	 in  the  tag;
	      number  of characters in the body; a 1 if the window is a direc‐
	      tory, 0 otherwise; and a 1 if the window is modified,  0	other‐
	      wise—followed  by	 the  tag up to a newline if present.  Thus at
	      character position 5×12 starts the name of  the  window.	 If  a
	      file  has	 multiple zeroxed windows open, only the most recently
	      used will appear in the index file.

       label  is an empty file, writable without effect, present only for com‐
	      patibility with rio.

       new    A	 directory  analogous  to  the	numbered  directories  (q.v.).
	      Accessing any file in new creates a new window.  Thus  to	 cause
	      text  to appear in a new window, write it to /dev/new/body.  For
	      more control, open /dev/new/ctl and use the interface  described
	      below.

       Each acme window has associated a directory numbered by its ID.	Window
       IDs are chosen sequentially and may be discovered by the ID command, by
       reading	the ctl file, or indirectly through the index file.  The files
       in the numbered directories are as follows.

       addr   may be written with any textual address  (line  number,  regular
	      expression,  etc.),  in  the  format  understood by button 3 but
	      without the initial colon, including compound addresses, to  set
	      the address for text accessed through the data file.  When read,
	      it returns the value of the address that would next be  read  or
	      written  through the data file, formatted as 2 decimal numbers m
	      and n, each formatted in 11 characters plus a blank.   M	and  n
	      are the character (not byte) offsets of the beginning and end of
	      the address, which would be expressed in acme 's input  language
	      as #m,#n.	 Thus a regular expression may be evaluated by writing
	      it to addr and reading it back.  The addr address has no	effect
	      on the user's selection of text.

       body   holds  contents  of the window body.  It may be read at any byte
	      offset.  Text written to body is always appended; the file  off‐
	      set is ignored.

       ctl    may  be  read  to	 recover the five numbers as held in the index
	      file, described above, plus three more fields: the width of  the
	      window  in  pixels, the name of the font used in the window, and
	      the width of a tab character in pixels.  Text  messages  may  be
	      written to ctl to affect the window.  Each message is terminated
	      by a newline and multiple messages  may  be  sent	 in  a	single
	      write.

	    addr=dot
		   Set the addr address to that of the user's selected text in
		   the window.

	    clean  Mark the window clean as though it has just been written.

	    dirty  Mark the window dirty, the opposite of clean.

	    cleartag
		   Remove all text in the tag after the vertical bar.

	    del	   Equivalent to the Del interactive command.

	    delete Equivalent to the Delete interactive command.

	    dot=addr
		   Set the user's selected text in  the	 window	 to  the  text
		   addressed by the addr address.

	    dump command
		   Set	the  command string to recreate the window from a dump
		   file.

	    dumpdir directory
		   Set the directory in which to run the command  to  recreate
		   the window from a dump file.

	    get	   Equivalent  to  the	Get  interactive command with no argu‐
		   ments; accepts no arguments.

	    limit=addr
		   When the ctl file is first opened, regular expression  con‐
		   text	 searches  in  addr  addresses examine the whole file;
		   this message restricts subsequent searches to  the  current
		   addr address.

	    mark   Cancel  nomark,  returning  the  window  to the usual state
		   wherein each modification to the body must be undone	 indi‐
		   vidually.

	    menu   Maintain  Undo,  Redo, and Put in the left half of the tag.
		   (This is the default for file windows.)

	    name name
		   Set the name of the window to name.

	    nomark Turn off automatic  `marking'  of  changes,	so  a  set  of
		   related  changes may be undone in a single Undo interactive
		   command.

	    nomenu Do not maintain Undo, Redo, and Put in the left half of the
		   tag.	  (This	 is  the  default for directory and error win‐
		   dows.)

	    noscroll
		   Turn off automatic `scrolling' of the window to  show  text
		   written to the body.

	    put	   Equivalent  to  the	Put  interactive command with no argu‐
		   ments; accepts no arguments.

	    scroll Cancel a noscroll message,  returning  the  window  to  the
		   default  state  wherein  each write to the body file causes
		   the window to `scroll' to display the new text.

	    show   Guarantee at least some of the selected text is visible  on
		   the display.

       data   is  used	in conjunction with addr for random access to the con‐
	      tents of the body.  The file offset is ignored when writing  the
	      data  file; instead the location of the data to be read or writ‐
	      ten is determined by the state of the addr  file.	  Text,	 which
	      must contain only whole characters (no `partial runes'), written
	      to data replaces the characters addressed by the addr  file  and
	      sets  the	 address  to the null string at the end of the written
	      text.  A read from data returns as many whole characters as  the
	      read  count  will	 permit	 starting at the beginning of the addr
	      address (the end of the address has  no  effect)	and  sets  the
	      address  to  the	null string at the end of the returned charac‐
	      ters.

       errors Writing  to  the	errors	file  appends  to  the	body  of   the
	      dir/+Errors  window,  where dir is the directory currently named
	      in the tag.  The window is created if necessary, but  not	 until
	      text is actually written.

       event  When  a window's event file is open, changes to the window occur
	      as always but the actions are also reported as messages  to  the
	      reader  of  the  file.   Also, user actions with buttons 2 and 3
	      (other than chorded Cut and Paste, which behave  normally)  have
	      no  immediate effect on the window; it is expected that the pro‐
	      gram reading the event file will interpret them.	 The  messages
	      have  a fixed format: a character indicating the origin or cause
	      of the action, a character indicating the type  of  the  action,
	      four  free-format	 blank-terminated  decimal  numbers,  optional
	      text, and a newline.  The first and second numbers are the char‐
	      acter  addresses	of  the	 action,  the third is a flag, and the
	      final is a count of the characters in the optional  text,	 which
	      may  itself  contain  newlines.  The origin characters are E for
	      writes to the body or tag file, F for actions through  the  win‐
	      dow's other files, K for the keyboard, and M for the mouse.  The
	      type characters are D for text deleted from the body, d for text
	      deleted  from  the  tag,	I for text inserted to the body, i for
	      text inserted to the tag, L for a button 3 action in the body, l
	      for a button 3 action in the tag, X for a button 2 action in the
	      body, and x for a button 2 action in the tag.

	      If the relevant  text  has  less	than  256  characters,	it  is
	      included in the message; otherwise it is elided, the fourth num‐
	      ber is 0, and the program must read it from  the	data  file  if
	      needed.  No text is sent on a D or d message.

	      For  D,  d,  I, and i the flag is always zero.  For X and x, the
	      flag is a bitwise OR (reported decimally) of the following: 1 if
	      the  text indicated is recognized as an acme built-in command; 2
	      if the text indicated is a  null	string	that  has  a  non-null
	      expansion;  if so, another complete message will follow describ‐
	      ing the expansion exactly as if it had been indicated explicitly
	      (its  flag  will	always	be  0);	 8 if the command has an extra
	      (chorded) argument; if so, two more complete messages will  fol‐
	      low  reporting the argument (with all numbers 0 except the char‐
	      acter count) and where it originated, in the form	 of  a	fully-
	      qualified button 3 style address.

	      For  L  and l, the flag is the bitwise OR of the following: 1 if
	      acme can interpret the action without loading a new file; 2 if a
	      second  (post-expansion) message follows, analogous to that with
	      X messages; 4 if the text is a file or window name (perhaps with
	      address) rather than plain literal text.

	      For  messages with the 1 bit on in the flag, writing the message
	      back to the event file, but with the flag, count, and text omit‐
	      ted,  will cause the action to be applied to the file exactly as
	      it would have been if the event file had not been open.

       tag    holds contents of the window tag.	 It may be read	 at  any  byte
	      offset.  Text written to tag is always appended; the file offset
	      is ignored.

       xdata  The xdata file like data except  that  reads  stop  at  the  end
	      address.

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/acme

SEE ALSO
       rio(1), acme(1), cons(3).

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