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From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Using Acme as an external Editor
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:55:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <140e7ec30907272355y150452a2gda2ba6b8e0925737@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130907271819y4c153150j7b2310e93a0d621@mail.gmail.com>

2009/7/28 J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com>:
> One caveat about E: if you're paranoid like I am and save your file
> many times while editing, E will not be terribly friendly until you
> train yourself to save only when finished. (This is not a criticism of
> E, it is merely a warning to people with my kind of idiosyncrasies)

 Heh, I do this too. Ended up writing
http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/plan9/acmeedit which also adds a Cancel
option so you can end the editing session with a non-zero exit (used
by some callers to abort the operation).
-sqweek



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-28  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-27  9:31 Aaron W. Hsu
2009-07-27  9:38 ` Sape Mullender
2009-07-27 10:47   ` Noah Evans
2009-07-27 10:50     ` Noah Evans
2009-07-27 11:16       ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-27 11:22         ` Steve Simon
2009-07-27 18:06 ` Tim Newsham
2009-07-27 18:22   ` Russ Cox
2009-07-28  1:19     ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-28  6:55       ` sqweek [this message]
2009-07-28 22:43         ` J.R. Mauro

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