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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] acme design
Date: Mon,  7 Jun 2004 15:47:58 +0200
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> 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.