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When I read the grand parent post, I immediately thought of acme. And of sam and how some of the best programmers I know use sam[1] a language that provides ev
by luriel 14y ago
When I read the grand parent post, I immediately thought of acme.
And of sam and how some of the best programmers I know use sam[1] a language that provides even less configurability than acme.
[1]: http://sam.cat-v.org http://sam.cat-v.org
- fusiongyro 14y agoAs I'm sure you already know, there's a fellow who did some impressive things with acme a few years back: http://ipn.caerwyn.com/search/label/acme http://ipn.caerwyn.com/search/label/acme If I understand correctly, these hinge on 9p; instead of Acme worrying about keypresses, it's some 9p client worrying about characters read. A clever solution, and self-evidently powerful, but with the obvious drawback that most of us aren't running Plan 9 or Inferno. And we still have the problem of syntax highlighting.