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Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go by stiff on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:12AM (#5454029)
I was semi-joking in reference to the comment, the Plan9 and suckless communities are famous for being very hard-headed about programming being the only way to customize their software. For example, I use dwm - http://dwm.suckless.org/ and like it a lot, though I wish they would change this aspect. I am not criticizing what you did in any way, in fact it looks very nice in comparison to great many similar projects, nice code and interesting design.
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Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go by nsf on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:18AM (#5454043)
I know, I know. I don't take it that personally, just was clarifying why I wrote it and that it's not necessary how I write software.
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Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go by sigzero on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:54AM (#5454291)
Good on you! Is this just for editing "go" or more generic?
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Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go by nsf on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:01AM (#5454493)
I use it for all text editing. Starting from config files and ending with Go/C/C++/Python/bash.
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Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go by papsosouid on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:13AM (#5454837)
>the Plan9 and suckless communities

Are two totally separate things and you are painting them both with the suckless brush. The plan9 community is nothing like that at all.

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Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go by stiff on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:26AM (#5454908)
I remember some poor guy asking about syntax highlighting in Acme and the reaction was pretty similar...
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Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go by papsosouid on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:36AM (#5454989)
Syntax highlighting is not a simple configuration option, it is a whole huge subsystem that has to be written.
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Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go by stiff on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:51AM (#5455101)
http://9fans.net/archive/2008/08/134
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Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go by papsosouid on Thursday March 28, 2013 @11:38AM (#5455450)
Did you read that? It does not support your notion that the plan9 community thinks programming is the way to customize software. It shows that the plan9 community thinks you shouldn't do those things, at all. They are not missing because you should edit the code to change them, they are missing because they should never exist.
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