porting linux programs and drivers to plan9

[Rich Cannings cannings@cpsc.ucalgary.ca]

Pete Fenelon wrote:
> As far as applications go -- the team carefully left out lurking horrors
> like gcc, make and emacs -- they do not fit into the plan9 philosophy; they
> are vast, monolithic, inflexible pieces of code. Yes, they're useful on
> systems where there isn't an reasonable alternative, but part of the charm
> of Plan9 is that it gets away from the need to run bloatware by providing
> lean, intelligent, portable tools.
> Plan9 is NOT Unix, and you won't enjoy it if you try to pretend that it is.

I see many people share your views on unix software. Without digressing
into a unix vs. plan9 spam match, if sam is to plan9 as ed is to unix
then what would be  the emacs of plan9? (I'm sorry Mr. Pike but I can't
believe anyone could write code in sam as fast as in emacs.)

how is this for a start:
a sam where you can define keystrokes.
 	eg. ctrl-x-f would run ">ls", or whatever you do to put ls in a new
file
	or ctrl-c would run ">make"...
	and of course working arrow keys!


rich

cannings@cpsc.ucalgary.ca