Plan 9 abandoned the ancient concept of the typewriter interface and instead uses a graphical 2d engine called devdraw. With that you can mix and match text wit

Plan 9 abandoned the ancient concept of the typewriter interface and instead uses a graphical 2d engine called devdraw. With that you can mix and match text with graphics in the same window. We emulate typewriter interfaces in the vt program which is a graphical program that implements a vt terminal. Its 2021, use graphics. Most people want a typewriter interface because they want/need to edit files in an ssh session on a remote server. Plan 9 doesn't do remote teletype control and instead imports/exports resources. Of course plan 9 has ssh but it is split into three separate programs: an ssh client that performs the regular teletype interface to a unix machine, sshnet which imports the remote systems tcp stack, and sshfs which mounts a remote file tree locally. If I wanted to edit text files on a remote unix machine, I'd just mount the file tree locally using sshfs and run sam or acme locally. Bring the resources to you and use your local tool set. Then you don't have to worry if the remote machine has x installed because you don't care.