Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:32:09 +0200
<cej@gli.cas.cz> wrote:

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> >  I also take issue with the statement "Acme is a text editor," that never sounds right, no more than describing Emacs as
> >  a text editor. It's natural to use Acme as a text editor and it provides many more text-editing facilities than Rio
> >  does, but it is also natural to use it as a file manager, shell window provider, email client, etc, etc.
> >  It provides more than Rio and it does it all with tiling windows and without menus, but that's just style.
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> I always thought of using Acme as 'The' UI for Plan 9, much in the Oberon way. I'm not a techie, but I use Plan 9 since 2000, or so, as my main OS. I would *way* love having graphics in Acme, asi it IS a great UI, IMHO.

As-is it's actually not a great UI for me, but perhaps with some small changes it could be. I'm still thinking those changes over.

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Ethan Grammatikidis

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