Re: [9fans] New internal command for acme proposal (with implementations)

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> I believe Acme should not be extended such way. There already were a lot of
> proposals of commands to add in Acme.
> If all of them were added we would have Acme with a size like LibreOffice
> and a tag on half of screen.

the parent said:
> >	I can't implement cmd as external, so I did little changes in
> >	original

i don't believe anyone has proposed adding all of them, and it's not
necessary to put every command that could be in the tag, in the tag.
Edit, for exampl,e is omitted.

> So let's extend Acme not by internal commands but filesystem extentions,
> may be new files, may be new messages for "ctl" files.
> For example, for pointer it can be a message "pointer=addr" for "ctl" file.

in spirit i agree with this.  but a few more points.

i've experimented with a few similer modifications, and have found that
the fs interface isn't fiat—it reflects the structure of the code.  changes
to the fs interface tend to spill out.

once one thinks about major modifications, i think it becomes attractive
to think about a new editor.  i miss having graphics.

- erik