A Tour of the Acme Editor

Re:A Tour of the Acme Editor by jff on Monday September 17, 2012 @04:57PM (#4534852)

I haven't written up a big summary, just occasional posts like this on HN and elsewhere. I started life as an Emacs user, switched to Vim, flip-flopped between the two for various tasks. The whole time, in the background, I was playing with Plan 9 and Acme; eventually I got sufficiently addicted to Acme that I dropped Emacs and Vim for most of my editing. I still use Emacs as a mail reader (and nothing else), Vim for quick edits or working on a remote system, and Acme for everything else.

I don't actually take the Plan9Ports thing as far as I could (I work on Linux, mostly, often with a drawterm connection open to our Plan 9 server). I run a plumber, and Acme, but I don't run rio (the window manager) or 9term (the xterm replacement), which means I'm going to miss out on some of the plumbing stuff. Mostly I just run the plumber so I can say "B <filename>" at a shell to have it pop up in my Acme.

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Re:A Tour of the Acme Editor by mej10 on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @01:29AM (#4536509)

Thanks. I find a lot of the Plan 9 stuff very fascinating, and I often think about what it would take to port some of the functionality to OSX.

I find it interesting that you mentioned the window management as being one of the big selling points. I have been working on a tiling window manager for OSX, and might try adding a mode like that. It would mean splitting my emacs into frames, which could be weird. Probably worth messing around with, though.

Also, I have several emacsclient based commands to do things like the plumber/acme, but is a pretty poor attempt at reimplementation.

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