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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme/sam linewrapping off
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:41:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c0fc4955c0f58848e5700f7ce002449@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00803250725h39188400oc8f4d6dbb112173b@mail.gmail.com>

> I haven't said that to use Vim is bad. Vim is my most favourite editor. I am
> myself happy to have Vim around in Plan9 (and am not alone for sure).
> Nonetheless, it's bad to not have an alternative which would follow the
> system's principles. Please read all I mentioned before. Vim does not follow
> those and is more and more distant from them (adding more and more features,
> becoming bloated). But now, there is not a Plan9-like editor suited for
> editing e.g. aforementioned files with several (real-number) fields (it
> simply gets wrapped and is unreadable then; using small fonts is not a
> proper solution since a too small font renders the file unreadable again).
> To be forced to use Vim right away is in my opinion sad. (Opposite to what
> you propose: you have to use Vim, you have no other way == you can't ignore
> it.)

why don't you add this feature to acme?  you have the source.  you care about
this feature.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-25 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-23 13:22 Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-23 16:18 ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-23 17:05   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-23 17:10     ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-23 18:04       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-23 18:14         ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-24  5:38         ` Micah Stetson
2008-03-24  9:22         ` Robert Raschke
2008-03-25  7:33           ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25  9:07             ` Hongzheng Wang
2008-03-25  9:39               ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25 10:01                 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-03-25 14:25                   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25 14:41                     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-03-25 16:28                       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25 16:51                 ` ron minnich
2008-03-25 18:04                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-03-25 15:16 gdiaz
2008-03-25 16:30 ` Rudolf Sykora

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