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

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>]

This is funny: O/live supports both images and text. *but* It's been
months ago that I do not use it any longer to display images but only
for text. That way I may have more screen surface for text. Would
the same happen to acme? Or perhaps it's me.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM, John Floren<slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis<eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:32:09 +0200
>> <cej@gli.cas.cz> wrote:
>>
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>>> >  I also take issue with the statement "Acme is a text editor," that never sounds right, no more than describing Emacs as
>>> >  a text editor. It's natural to use Acme as a text editor and it provides many more text-editing facilities than Rio
>>> >  does, but it is also natural to use it as a file manager, shell window provider, email client, etc, etc.
>>> >  It provides more than Rio and it does it all with tiling windows and without menus, but that's just style.
>>>
>>> I always thought of using Acme as 'The' UI for Plan 9, much in the Oberon way. I'm not a techie, but I use Plan 9 since 2000, or so, as my main OS. I would *way* love having graphics in Acme, asi it IS a great UI, IMHO.
>>
>> As-is it's actually not a great UI for me, but perhaps with some small changes it could be. I'm still thinking those changes over.
>>
>
> Acme is the worst editor/environment, except for all the others.
>
> Sometimes it seems cluttered and confusing, but then I realize that's
> because it has more files open than I would even try on emacs, merely
> because switching around between emacs buffers is slower and less
> convenient. Speaking of which, I recently discovered that emacs (on X,
> at least) is now capable of running a terminal which can in turn run
> vi or console-mode emacs. OT but madness. Now I want to run sam in
> acme.
>
> Eric and myself, and I think maybe Ron, are using acme and acme-sac to
> interact with a BlueGene/P system. I write code in acme, then use a
> guide file to run the various scripts I need to connect to the
> frontend node and launch jobs, then use win to telnet into the
> individual nodes and run tests. The real advantage comes from the
> "Local" command and the way windows are managed/output is handled.
>
> I'd really like to see acme get support for graphical programs,
> although right now I'm content enough as things stand.
>
>
> John
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