Plan 9 makes it easy to search your terminal buffer history (it's in /dev/text) (Ok I shouldn't call it a terminal... it's a rio window with a shell in it... it

Plan 9 makes it easy to search your terminal buffer history (it's in /dev/text) (Ok I shouldn't call it a terminal... it's a rio window with a shell in it... it's not a terminal) Acme does similar things letting you manipulate the tag line, or body of a given window. "Everything is a file" can be a nice interface even at the widget/application level. "Everything is a buffer" in Emacs likely enjoys the same benefits (and predates Plan 9 and Acme)