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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:43:26 -0400
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From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Using Acme as an external Editor
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:55 AM, sqweek<sqweek@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/28 J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com>:
>> One caveat about E: if you're paranoid like I am and save your file
>> many times while editing, E will not be terribly friendly until you
>> train yourself to save only when finished. (This is not a criticism of
>> E, it is merely a warning to people with my kind of idiosyncrasies)
>
> =A0Heh, I do this too. Ended up writing
> http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/plan9/acmeedit which also adds a Cancel
> option so you can end the editing session with a non-zero exit (used
> by some callers to abort the operation).
> -sqweek
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>

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