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Re:Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor by ktamura on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:26AM (#11447983)
Yeah. I've been using Acme for awhile now. While Acme itself is nice, what I really like is the B/E editor embedded in it. It's just a very simple editor that can be extended with _external_ programs.

Finally, I've come to appreciate using a mouse with my editor. Until I completely got rid of using most keyboard shortcuts (other than the most basic ones), I didn't realize how much cognitive taxes I was paying to retain and context-switch among different families of keyboard shortcuts. Mousing is so much more uniform.

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Re:Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor by woah on Thursday April 07, 2016 @07:02PM (#11451401)
What?? I've gone the opposite direction on mousing.
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Re:Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor by marchelzo on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:17PM (#11448458)
What does B/E stand for?
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Re:Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor by ktamura on Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:26PM (#11448975)
They are the utility scripts to start an editor window in Acme. B is async whereas E is sync (so that it can be used for the EDITOR env variable for software like git).

Not sure what they stand for for sure. E is probably editor. B might be buffer?

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