From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:07:56 -0700
From: Eric Dorman eld@jewel.ucsd.edu
Subject: porting linux programs and drivers to plan9
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> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:04:57 +0100 (BST)
> From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
 
> >For others who don't have endless computers kicking around, if the
> >pcdist had a free pppclient, a large documentation library, and a
> >commonly recognized editor (can we agree on microemacs?) plan 9 would
> >not be as much of a shock to new users.
> 
> My vote is for Microemacs. It may not be as good as what Plan9
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> has to offer, but until versions of a Plan9 editor is available for Unix,
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

heh.  I was sort-of surprised when my first plan9.ini iteration
failed and 8.5 wouldn't start (can't remember why) and I just
mindlessly typed c:;ed /n/c:/plan9/plan9.ini and it worked :)

Unfortunately I think screen editors like microemacs require cursor
addressing stuff, which I believe is nowhere in Plan9.  It would seem
that to get it working all of the (say) ANSI terminal ESC sequence
parsing stuff would have to be stuck in the console driver (if you want
it to work w/o 8.5 running).
 
> DigbyT

Sincerely,

Eric Dorman
edorman@ucsd.edu