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Thanks...followed the Wikipedia link to the Rob Cox demo video. Mind blowing to have an editor as an OS filesystem that can intercept OS events. If I hadn't spe

by MrTonyD 10y ago

Thanks...followed the Wikipedia link to the Rob Cox demo video. Mind blowing to have an editor as an OS filesystem that can intercept OS events. If I hadn't spent the last 20 years learning vi I would grab a copy and give it a try.

SwellJoe 10y ago
Russ Cox, not Rob Cox. You may be intermingling Rob Pike and Russ Cox, who are both involved in Acme.
jabl 10y ago
Yeah, plan 9 did a lot of cool things and fixed many of Unix fundamental warts. Taking the "everything is a file" much further, and namespaces as a fundamental primitive rather than something bolted on afterwards, for starters. Alas, too little too late, it seems.
- pjmlp 10y ago
  Inferno and Limbo improved upon it.