From: Patrick Kelly <p-kell@live.com>
To: "'Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs'" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:28:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAY403-EAS503988B293F209E52D8C2AF0770@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DUB125-W72CFD181349B0D19B0AABD8C770@phx.gbl>
>From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-bounces@9fans.net] On Behalf Of
Steve Foster
>Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:02 PM
>To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
>Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:50:45 -0600
>> From: mirtchovski@gmail.com
>> To: 9fans@9fans.net
>> Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?
>>
>> > What has surprised me is how much I like working in plan 9,
particularly
>> > acme. I've even grown to like the way it looks including the colours.
>>
>> the colour palette has been specifically chosen to be easy on the eyes.
>>
>
>And it is! I used to spend ages fiddling with different colour schemes in
emacs and sublime text (basically it's a distraction for me) and it's a
relief not to have that option any more. I believe you can change it at code
level, but I see no need too.
Research is nearly always neglected, unless the research shows higher
profits. Pretty sells machines, but is hard on the eyes when actually
working. Plan 9 is gorgeous, in a different, but easily arguable, way than
OS X or recent UNIX GUI's.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-11 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-09 9:28 Steve Foster
2014-03-09 9:57 ` Bence Fábián
2014-03-09 10:11 ` Mark van Atten
2014-03-09 10:43 ` Bence Fábián
2014-03-09 13:40 ` Steve Foster
2014-03-09 17:02 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-03-09 19:57 ` Bence Fábián
2014-03-11 11:04 ` Steve Foster
2014-03-11 14:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2014-03-11 16:01 ` Steve Foster
2014-03-11 16:28 ` Patrick Kelly [this message]
2014-03-11 14:55 ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-11 15:58 ` Steve Foster
2014-03-11 16:23 ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-11 16:46 ` Steve Simon
2014-03-11 17:01 ` Steve Foster
2014-03-11 23:10 ` Steve Simon
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