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Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie question
From: Gregory Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net>
Date: Sat,  9 Dec 2006 09:26:08 -0500
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My $0.02.

When I began using Plan 9, rio, and acme, I forced myself to use it
because I had the sense that it was an elegant system and that, if I
ever came to understand it, especially per process namespaces, I could
do some really clever stuff.  In the early stages I would have said
that you use Plan 9 despite the user interface, not because of it.
Well, now I can't stand to use anything else.  I have a mac just for
the cases when I need a =E2=80=9Cfull-featured=E2=80=9D browser and drawt=
erm to my
Plan 9 setup the rest of the time.

Perhaps giving it a few weeks is the way to go.

Greg

>> Hello!
>>=20
>> I don't like the mouse very much either.  I use it for placing windows
>> and have learned just the basics for working with rio windows and
>> acme until now.
>>=20
>> with "vt" you can put a rio terminal into "vt100" mode, and "ape/psh"
>> gives you a Korn Shell, however without emacs and vi editing modes.
>>=20
>> Maybe you can get these modes back into psh and feel at home then.
>>=20
>=20
> Or you just learn the idea behind it all. This 'oh my gawd I must touch=
 a mouse!?!?!?'-drama constantly occuring in the so-called unix-community=
 is at least funny, but can quickly become annoying.