From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60907151159g5b031e99k2ad8171c9c268392@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d3530220907151000s60671d2gfdb18cdf12c55097@mail.gmail.com> <0009e18319f5c60dc890463505286c1c@quintile.net> <3e1162e60907151159g5b031e99k2ad8171c9c268392@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:07:12 -0700 Message-ID: <7d3530220907151207p34a25bfatad228cef86ddd56e@mail.gmail.com> From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2198c25a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Steve Simon wrote: >> >> > Eric and myself, and I think maybe Ron, are using acme and acme-sac to >> > interact with a BlueGene/P system. >> >> 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. >> >> 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 > > 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 -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba