Re: [9fans] fn oddity with acme

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

>>
>> Ah thanks, I would have never thought of using builtin in that case, I
>> thought that the word following builtin had to be an rc built-in
>> command.
>
> I doubt that "builtin acme" was a planned feature of rc,
> though it's a neat trick.  If you want to be clearer, you
> could write /bin/acme.

on unix, this often wouldn't work since acme isn't usually
in /bin.  perhaps this is my particular symptom of unix brain
damage but, regardless of name, builtin just skips shell
functions in its lookup so its more than just a trick.

- erik