(If you're unfamiliar with the Plan 9 concept of "plumbing", you may want to start by reading the paper)
de now supports directly using the plan9ports plumber for interpreting interactions, if it's available, with a couple caveats.
- Since de is a single-buffer editor, we need another process (the deplumber) to handle the incoming messages. (If de handled the edit port itself either either every window would process each edit message and the windows would multiply like rabbits, or the plumbing would stop working after the first window closed.)
- The default p9p plumbing rules don't plumb directories to $editor. The file plumbing.sample is a sample config that you can put in $HOME/lib/plumbing in order to use deplumber to listen on the edit port, and also plumb directories to edit.
So to use de with plumbing the steps are:
- Run "plumber" (from p9p)
- Run "deplumber" (from de, you may need to
go get github.com/driusan/de/...first) in the background) - Run de, or plumb a message some other way to test it.
You can plumb from de either by hitting the Enter key or right clicking somewhere. If the message couldn't be successfully plumbed or deplumber isn't running, de will fall back on the old behaviour (find next for right-click, and execute for enter.)
de is a text editor, not a window manager. If you're running under X11, you may want to use a tiling window manager in order to have your windows managed in a way that makes de more closely resemble acme. Otherwise, de doesn't pretend that it knows how you like your windows arranged better than you and your window manager.
The integration of plumbing directly into de is relatively new, so if you have any problems, please file a bug report.