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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme design
Date: Mon,  7 Jun 2004 15:47:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02e601c44c96$0e0572e0$b17e7d50@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ACCF003CBA3D09458207DB0CB86AD17D2012D7@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz>

> could anyone explain me why Edit command (plus the whole language)
> was hardwired into acme (thus breaking its purpose as UI, not an editor,

i think you'll find it was designed to be an editor.

> and moving closer in spirit to those windozish bloat apps, IMHO)
> instead of a separate prog, like mail was implemented?

then i think all this other stuff  was added, turning it into a UI.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-07 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-07  8:22 cej
2004-06-07 13:43 ` Russ Cox
2004-06-07 13:47 ` boyd, rounin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-04 11:22 cej
2004-06-04  9:12 cej
2004-06-03 11:21 cej
2004-06-03 14:59 ` a
2004-06-03  8:37 cej
2004-06-03  8:07 cej
2004-06-03  8:52 ` plan9
2004-06-03 13:53 ` rog
2004-06-03 13:55 ` rog
2004-06-05  6:09   ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-06-05 10:07     ` Charles Forsyth
2004-06-05 13:48       ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-06-05 15:50         ` Rob Pike
2004-06-06  2:23           ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-06-06  3:25             ` Rob Pike
2004-06-06  7:24               ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-06-06  8:54               ` vdharani
2004-06-03  7:58 cej
2004-06-03  8:54 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-06-02 12:57 cej
2004-06-02 13:20 ` a
2004-06-02 15:18   ` plan9
2004-06-03 13:48   ` rog
2004-06-03 14:17     ` lucio
2004-06-03 14:34       ` rog
2004-06-03 15:38         ` kiwane
2004-06-03 15:45           ` rog
2004-06-04  9:19     ` Bengt Kleberg
2004-06-04 10:29       ` Axel Belinfante
2004-06-03  0:54 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-06-03  0:56   ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-06-03  8:35 ` WLad
2004-06-03  8:40 ` vdharani

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