From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60703121043u7d75e4f0h4096ceb1fd67a7f0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:43:19 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: <20070312173752.GC7790@gluon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070312100628.GD3982@gluon> <20070312173752.GC7790@gluon> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 20803964-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/12/07, lejatorn@gmail.com wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:55:42AM -0800, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > > -the fact I find the documentation unreadable in a term so I have to > > > read the docs in a browser on my other comp, > > > > man -P man > > > > > -obviously the fact that it's quite a different system from unix, > > > -the lack of completion with tab (I know it can be done with another > > > key, but it's hard to break the tab habit), > > > -and last but not least, getting used to edit with sam or acme > > > (which of course means using the mouse) while I'm working all day with > > > vim without ever using the mouse. > > > > these all say the same thing: the environment is different than what > > you're used to. it is well worth the time to learn the new > > environment. > > Sure, that's why I'm far from having given up, I'm just going really > slowly. And the problem with that is I forget almost everything I > learned between two plan9 "sessions" since I don't have time to play > with it often enough. But I figured if I started using acme from the > plan9port at work, that at least would be acquired. :). > I actually keep notebooks of things that I learn when I'm trying new OSes. I have one for FreeBSD too, as I was really used to the linux way of doing things when I went to that OS. I think that the wiki is meant to be a sort of "shared notebook" for the community to contribute and update.