From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:44:59 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-Id: <20090715164459.a40763e6.eekee57@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <3BBB12CF4EFF4040B38542759379E3CD0278ED@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz> References: <87r5wivc8s.fsf@plap.localdomain> <20090715132212.6c3cc544.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <3BBB12CF4EFF4040B38542759379E3CD0278ED@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 21692a18-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:32:09 +0200 wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.