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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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