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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames
Date: Fri,  6 May 2011 08:45:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A8CEFB61-37F8-45F7-B5C2-016812D7648E@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimaRuPZZWmnrEYwRGw+v-dEFUsCfQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On May 6, 2011, at 12:08 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, errno <errno@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> After a few months of reading and learning and actual hands-on
>> experience, I've found that rio and acme and mk and 8c ,etc., are
>> far less interesting than union directories, per-process namespaces,
>> 9p and intrinsic, ubiquitous distributed computing - that's where I
>> personally think the action is at.
>
> The I humbly submit that you may have Missed The Point.

The things errmo finds more interesting are indeed where there has
been far more experimentation. Acme is great as a programmer's editor
but I tend to think that it has reached an evolutionary dead end
(how's that as flamebait?:-). Its model of type anywhere doesn't buy
you much where the primary mode is reading (as opposed to writing or
editing). Not everything requiring a UI fits comfortably in the acme/
rio model. Designing a good UI is just very hard and the challenges
there IMHO don't benefit much from plan9's strong points.

Well designed documents that use multiple fonts, graphical elements,
white space, colors, pictures are far easier on one's eyes. It would
be great if such pages can be viewed, and even better, created on
plan9. HTML isn't just for browsers anymore! On the Mac there are some
great apps for journal or blog writing etc that use the webkit (not
everyone uses MS word or pages). In a way a good webkit can *vitalize*
plan9. So more power to errno if he wants to do this!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-06 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 160+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-26 18:08 [9fans] " smiley
2011-04-26 18:42 ` Rob Pike
2011-04-26 18:44   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-26 18:52   ` dexen deVries
2011-04-26 19:31     ` Rob Pike
2011-04-26 19:35       ` Paul Lalonde
2011-04-27 13:10       ` Digby Tarvin
2011-04-27 13:16         ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 13:21         ` Steve Simon
2011-04-28  9:58           ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-04-28 12:11             ` [9fans] spaces in filenames (and filesystems...) Digby Tarvin
2011-04-28 12:35               ` [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...)) dexen deVries
2011-04-28 13:42                 ` [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and Richard Miller
2011-04-28 14:00                 ` [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...)) Digby Tarvin
2011-04-28 14:13                   ` dexen deVries
2011-04-28 15:35                     ` [9fans] portable filesystem smiley
2011-04-28 15:38                     ` [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...)) Digby Tarvin
2011-04-28 14:18                   ` dexen deVries
2011-04-29 13:30               ` [9fans] spaces in filenames (and filesystems...) Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-29 14:00                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29 15:06                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-29 15:17                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29 19:17                       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-30  1:09                         ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-30  2:50                           ` smiley
2011-04-30  2:55                             ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-26 18:43 ` [9fans] spaces in filenames erik quanstrom
2011-04-27  2:30   ` smiley
2011-04-27  2:39     ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 15:10       ` [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: " smiley
2011-04-28 15:30         ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 16:16           ` smiley
2011-04-28 16:21             ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 17:23               ` smiley
2011-04-28 17:35                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-28 18:20                   ` ron minnich
2011-04-28 18:50                     ` Brian L. Stuart
2011-04-28 19:19                       ` Jeff Sickel
2011-04-28 19:29                       ` dexen deVries
2011-04-28 19:39                         ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29  2:00                           ` errno
2011-04-29  3:03                             ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29  6:11                               ` errno
2011-04-29  6:34                                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-29  9:18                               ` Charles Forsyth
2011-04-29  9:12                                 ` dexen deVries
2011-04-29  9:44                                   ` Charles Forsyth
2011-04-29  9:44                                   ` tlaronde
2011-04-29  9:54                                     ` dexen deVries
2011-04-29 13:56                                       ` Jeff Sickel
2011-05-05  9:54                                         ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-08 18:27                                           ` tlaronde
2011-05-08 20:51                                             ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-05-09 16:54                                               ` tlaronde
2011-05-09 17:10                                                 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-05-10  8:34                                                   ` hiro
2011-05-10 12:27                                                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-05-13  8:40                                                       ` Akshat Kumar
2011-05-13 10:14                                                         ` hiro
2011-05-13 13:30                                                         ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-05-10 13:47                                                     ` Daniel Lyons
2011-05-12 18:40                                                       ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-05-10 17:56                                                     ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-05-12 22:22                                                       ` hiro
2011-05-10 21:47                                                     ` John Floren
2011-05-08 21:34                                             ` Comeau At9Fans
2011-05-09  4:53                                             ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-29  3:11                             ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-29  5:27                             ` ron minnich
2011-04-29  9:04                               ` Charles Forsyth
2011-04-29 10:19                                 ` errno
2011-04-29 12:21                                   ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-30  4:05                                     ` errno
2011-04-30  4:22                                       ` errno
2011-04-30  6:26                                       ` Anthony Sorace
2011-04-30  8:16                                         ` errno
2011-04-30  8:25                                           ` Steve Simon
2011-04-30  9:48                                             ` errno
2011-05-05  9:55                                             ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-30 12:18                                           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-30 22:21                                           ` smiley
2011-04-30 23:20                                             ` errno
2011-04-30 23:33                                               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-05-01  0:12                                                 ` errno
2011-05-01  0:16                                                   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-05-01 23:56                                           ` blstuart
2011-05-02  0:00                                             ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-02  1:42                                             ` errno
2011-05-02  1:44                                               ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-02  2:29                                                 ` errno
2011-05-02  2:38                                                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-02  3:11                                                     ` errno
2011-05-02  3:15                                                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-02  4:09                                                         ` errno
2011-05-02  3:39                                                       ` ron minnich
2011-05-02  4:05                                                         ` Steve Simon
2011-05-02 10:38                                                   ` Salman Aljammaz
2011-05-02 11:46                                                     ` errno
2011-05-02 16:29                                                       ` Charles Forsyth
2011-05-02 16:48                                                         ` dexen deVries
2011-05-02 11:51                                                     ` Charles Forsyth
2011-05-02 13:54                                           ` Jack Norton
2011-05-02 14:45                                             ` Anthony Sorace
2011-05-02 16:16                                             ` Charles Forsyth
2011-05-05 12:33                                           ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-05 12:48                                             ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-06  4:23                                             ` Lucio De Re
2011-05-06  4:35                                               ` ron minnich
2011-05-06  6:45                                                 ` errno
2011-05-06  7:08                                                   ` ron minnich
2011-05-06  7:35                                                     ` errno
2011-05-06 15:45                                                     ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2011-05-06 15:59                                                       ` John Floren
2011-05-06 16:47                                                         ` Bakul Shah
2011-05-06 16:11                                                       ` tlaronde
2011-05-06 12:07                                                   ` Lucio De Re
2011-05-06 16:07                                                     ` [9fans] freedom (was Re: Compiling 9atom kernel) errno
2011-05-06 16:29                                                       ` Jack Norton
2011-05-06 17:38                                                         ` errno
2011-05-07  0:06                                                       ` errno
2011-05-07  5:01                                                       ` Lucio De Re
2011-05-07  7:36                                                         ` Daniel Lyons
2011-05-16 15:02                                                         ` Steve Simon
2011-05-06  7:08                                                 ` [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames errno
2011-05-06  7:11                                                   ` ron minnich
2011-05-06 12:59                                                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-06 16:06                                                     ` errno
2011-05-06 17:30                                                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-06 22:32                                                     ` Comeau At9Fans
2011-05-06 22:57                                                       ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-05-06 23:18                                                       ` errno
2011-05-06 23:49                                                         ` Comeau At9Fans
2011-05-06 23:47                                                       ` errno
2011-05-06 23:56                                                         ` Comeau At9Fans
2011-05-07  0:22                                                           ` errno
2011-05-07  0:12                                                         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-05-07  0:43                                                           ` errno
2011-05-06 13:15                                                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-30 22:34                                         ` smiley
2011-04-30 22:45                                           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-05-01  6:54                                             ` dexen deVries
2011-05-05 12:33                                           ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-05 12:54                                             ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-05-05 20:30                                               ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-05-05 21:22                                                 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-05-06  5:20                                                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-05-06  7:02                                                     ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-05-06  7:06                                                     ` errno
2011-05-05  9:55                                       ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-04 11:40                                     ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-29 12:32                                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29 18:39                                   ` Iruatã Souza
2011-04-29  6:06                             ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-28 20:50                         ` Anthony Sorace
2011-05-04 11:40                       ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-05-04 11:56                         ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 18:33                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29  4:31                   ` smiley
2011-04-29  4:35                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 19:27                 ` Charles Forsyth

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