>  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.

Peter A. Cejchan, aka
++pac.