From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6c0fc4955c0f58848e5700f7ce002449@quanstro.net> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:41:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] acme/sam linewrapping off Topicbox-Message-UUID: 80ceecb0-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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