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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:38:25 +0200
From: Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Using Acme as an external Editor
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Take a look at B, which can be used to send a file
to acme.  Also you may want to familiarize yourself with plumb.


> Hello,
>
> Is there some idiom or method for using Acme as an external editor to some
> other program? Say I want to use it as the editor that is spawned when I
> do a CVS commit to a system; how would I do this, or can this even be
> done? I'm using plan9ports, but I don't know how much of this question
> relates to what.
>
> 	Aaron W. Hsu
>
> --
> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
> victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis