Re: [9fans] Using Acme Remotely

[Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, KevinK <kevin.paul.kerr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Very new plan9 user here--just installed plan 9 from user space yesterday.  Acme seems like a very interesting text editor, and I'd like to give it a try.  However, after searching around the documentation and watching the ShowYou tutorial that was posted on hacker news some time ago, I haven't come across much info on how to use Acme to connect to a remote machine.
>
> I've used win to ssh into a remote machine, but this only seems to expose a bash session and not all the functionality acme provides.
>
> If someone could point me towards some documentation describing how to use acme to connect to a remote machine or describe their preferred method for doing so I'd really appreciate it.

Hi Kevin,

Unfortunately acme doesn't have provisions for remote editing, however
you can edit any file on any file system you happen to import into
your namespace.

If you wish to edit within Plan 9 natively, I'd look into one of the
many options to connect to a remote system using a file system
interface (http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Integration_with_other_OSs/index.html).

If you are interested in using acme on other systems, rsc's plan9port
(http://swtch.com/plan9port/) could be of some use to you. acme-sac
(http://code.google.com/p/acme-sac/) is another possibility and
provides support for Windows as well.

Cheers,

Steve