From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20090701192454.GA31691@jg.domain_not_set.invalid> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:49:21 -0700 Message-ID: <13426df10907041049j58233f7bo6e7017ab375731b0@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 141cbf14-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I am just this year (shame on me!) really starting to use constructive re's to effect. It's really worth playing around with X// and friends. Having (e.g.) 32 Acme windows up and applying a command to 1/2 of them is really very nice. The ease with which one can apply a shell command to a blob of text is also quite nice. It's kind of like having a semi-interactive pipeline. ron