From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "William K. Josephson" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] User Interface Message-ID: <20010815092322.A49355@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <3B7835D4.2050908@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B7835D4.2050908@xs4all.nl>; from eric.de.redelijkheid@xs4all.nl on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:46:06AM +0000 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:23:22 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dce5799c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:46:06AM +0000, Eric de Redelijkheid wrote: > I trust that the concepts were well concidered when designing this > operating system, however I have never seen a more awkward user > interface since twm. The editors, sam and acme are virtually unusable. > Why is it that such a simple task as editing the contents of a textfile > must cause so much pain? At least some of you must have seen notepad.exe > at work during your lifetime? It canīt do much, but it gets the job done > in a simple way! Actually, I think acme is the best new piece of software I've used since I started using Unix a decade ago. There are some minor annoyances and the documentation could be better, however I appreciate the economy of motion required to use the editor. Plan 9 is not especiauuuully kind to those who aren't willing to give new ideas and new ways of doing things a chance :-) > btw: is there a shutdown command or do I just switch my laptop of? disk/kfscmd halt followed by the Big Red Switch. -WJ Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. -- Oscar Wilde