Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

[John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM, David Leimbach<leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
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>> > Eric and myself, and I think maybe Ron, are using acme and acme-sac to
>> > interact with a BlueGene/P system.
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>> Not as glamorous, but an alternative senario - I use sam and rio
>> to write embedded and windows code.
>>
>> I edit the code with sam, but I do my best not to ever access
>> the seperate rio snarf buffer.
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>> I keep the commands or scripts I need to test the code in rio's
>> snarf, when I am ready to try things I just click the rio window
>> and Button 2 to execute send.
>>
>> -Steve
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> I use plan 9 port acme fairly regularly, when I get tired of weird Emacsisms
> that get in my way rather than helping me.

Emacs is great for writing Lisp. Now, if only I could find the correct
.emacs invocation to make the tab key insert a tab character in C
mode, rather than a bunch of spaces the way His Holy Lunacy RMS
desires. If I wanted spaces instead of tabs, I'd type them!


John
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