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I was semi-joking in reference to the comment, the Plan9 and suckless communities are famous for being very hard-headed about programming being the only way to

by stiff 14y ago

I was semi-joking in reference to the comment, the Plan9 and suckless communities are famous for being very hard-headed about programming being the only way to customize their software. For example, I use dwm - http://dwm.suckless.org/ http://dwm.suckless.org/ and like it a lot, though I wish they would change this aspect. I am not criticizing what you did in any way, in fact it looks very nice in comparison to great many similar projects, nice code and interesting design.

nsf 14y ago
I know, I know. I don't take it that personally, just was clarifying why I wrote it and that it's not necessary how I write software.
- sigzero 14y ago
  Good on you! Is this just for editing "go" or more generic?
  - nsf 14y ago
    I use it for all text editing. Starting from config files and ending with Go/C/C++/Python/bash.
papsosouid 14y ago
>the Plan9 and suckless communities Are two totally separate things and you are painting them both with the suckless brush. The plan9 community is nothing like that at all.
- stiff 14y ago
  I remember some poor guy asking about syntax highlighting in Acme and the reaction was pretty similar...
  - papsosouid 14y ago
    Syntax highlighting is not a simple configuration option, it is a whole huge subsystem that has to be written.
    - stiff 14y ago
      http://9fans.net/archive/2008/08/134 http://9fans.net/archive/2008/08/134
      - papsosouid 14y ago
        Did you read that? It does not support your notion that the plan9 community thinks programming is the way to customize software. It shows that the plan9 community thinks you shouldn't do those things, at all. They are not missing because you should edit the code to change them, they are missing because they should never exist.