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>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 lik
by 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 agoI remember some poor guy asking about syntax highlighting in Acme and the reaction was pretty similar...
- papsosouid 14y agoSyntax highlighting is not a simple configuration option, it is a whole huge subsystem that has to be written.
- stiff 14y agohttp://9fans.net/archive/2008/08/134 http://9fans.net/archive/2008/08/134
- papsosouid 14y agoDid 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.