Acme's big thing isn't the mouse. It's the plumber and regex-based logic, which has the effect of making the mouse more useful. But the same would be true of th

Acme's big thing isn't the mouse. It's the plumber and regex-based logic, which has the effect of making the mouse more useful. But the same would be true of the keyboard, it just hasn't made it into a popular implementation yet, probably for lack of plumber on popular unices. There was a project on GH that tried to do acme/Sam with the addition of keyboard modal; it would make a very powerful editor. Here it is: https://github.com/driusan/de https://github.com/driusan/de I currently use kakoune which is probably the closest thing to that idea in a production ready editor, only the 'plumber' is done with shell commands, which can send variables back to running instances, so it's more DIY than plan9 plumbing.