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
next prev parent 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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