Pardes control filesystem ========================= README this guide index one line per pane: serial, kind (text|term|pdf|image), dirty flag, name status pid, version and pane count look write a line: a right click on it at the active pane; read: the serials it touched exec write a line: a middle click, an editor command word or a shell line; read the same log recent events, one a line: new/del/rename/save , and msg , what the editor said; write follow to wait (tail -f won't) screen rendered screen as JSON, frozen from open to close listeners the session's dial addresses pane/new open it to make a pane; the read answers that pane's serial pane// name body tag ctl addr dot limit data xdata sel dirty mark scroll errors event look exec, and pty/ for terminals; rmdir closes it os/ the host filesystem src/ the editor's own sources, only in a -Dembed-sources=true build Below, $m is the mount point (PARDES_MOUNT in a Tty9p shell; 9ns and 9p work too): cat $m/index which panes exist n=$(cat $m/pane/new) make a pane, take its serial echo /etc/hosts:3 > $m/look; cat $m/look open a file, see the pane it went to printf 'text\n' > $m/pane/$n/body append to a pane (>| truncates first) cat $m/pane/$n/name; echo notes.txt > $m/pane/$n/name read, then rename echo Save > $m/pane/$n/exec save it; rmdir $m/pane/$n closes it echo 'Msg hello' > $m/exec show text in the editor echo '#0,#5' > $m/pane/$n/addr; printf NEW >> $m/pane/$n/data replace bytes 0..5 cp $m/pane/$n/addr $m/pane/$n/dot; cat $m/pane/$n/sel select the range, read it cat $m/pane/$n/dirty; echo 0 > $m/pane/$n/dirty is it modified? say it is not exec 3<>$m/log; echo follow >&3; cat <&3 what happened lately, then wait for more cat $m/pane/$n/event hold it open to own that pane's clicks echo exec > $m/pane/$n/pty/ctl restart a shell; also winsize C R, sig INT exec 3<>$m/pane/$n/pty/run; echo make >&3; cat <&3 exit N then its output; or busy, or error printf 'ls\r' > $m/pane/$n/pty/data type into a terminal; pty/status: cols rows busy Pitfalls, one each: Each open of pane/new makes another pane (ls, stat, find never do); a reread names the same. rmdir closes a pane even when it is dirty; index and pane//dirty show the flag. addr, dot and limit read the same pair of offsets they take, so cp between them works. dirty, mark and scroll read "0" or "1" and take "0" or "1"; truncating limit lifts it. Writing body appends; open it with truncation to replace; writes are whole UTF-8 sequences. Truncating tag clears the part you may edit; truncating dot or addr empties it. A terminal's body is a history snapshot frozen per open; pty/data is the live stream. A failing command is reported in the editor and in log, not as a write error; a bad line fails the write. pane//ctl: acme's status line; takes get (reload), lock/unlock on a held fd (exec 3>ctl; echo lock >&3).