old computer challenge 4: day 9

the challenge has been over for almost a day now. i was thrown off in quite a few places going back to my regular setup. i grew used to rio, and plan9port's rio is

  1. janky
  2. laggy
  3. lacking window swallowing

i really like automatic window swallowing. i'm working on getting it set up. my main laptop lacks any physical buttons, which is throwing me off. i am again considering getting a thinkpad X200 or something.

the plumber is fucked if you need to plumb a file name with spaces in it. i do not feel like putting in the annoying amount of effort to fix it.

plan9port, like 9front, does not have any support for fallback fonts. maybe there's a program or something that merges font files together, because that's basically the one thing that is stopping me from mostly switching from vi to sam.

i like sam. i'm writing this in plan9port's sam right now. i would try out acme but i would like to get the p9p plumber configured first, which may be a challenge because i have a shit load of files with spaces in the name. also mouse chording was a shit idea and you can't do them at all on a touchpad without physical buttons.