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Re:Sublime Text 2.0 Released by luriel on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @05:37PM (#4164299)
When I read the grand parent post, I immediately thought of acme.

And of sam and how some of the best programmers I know use sam[1] a language that provides even less configurability than acme.

[1]: http://sam.cat-v.org

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Re:Sublime Text 2.0 Released by fusiongyro on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @05:53PM (#4164367)
As I'm sure you already know, there's a fellow who did some impressive things with acme a few years back:

http://ipn.caerwyn.com/search/label/acme

If I understand correctly, these hinge on 9p; instead of Acme worrying about keypresses, it's some 9p client worrying about characters read. A clever solution, and self-evidently powerful, but with the obvious drawback that most of us aren't running Plan 9 or Inferno. And we still have the problem of syntax highlighting.

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