Re: [9fans] libframe Go port

[Giles Hutton <hutton.giles@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 9:57 PM Staven <staven@staven.pl> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 03:42:42PM +0000, Giles Hutton wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm currently in the process of porting acme to Go
>
> Why?
>


I've been asking myself that same question a lot actually. A friend of mine
showed me acme
a couple of months ago, and it was different and interesting enough to keep
me using it for a little while. Coming from a vim background, my assessment
at that point was that acme does separate windows/panes orders of magnitude
better than vim, but acme's text editing was a bit too simplistic compared
to vim. So my initial intention was to port acme to Go, and add in vi-style
modal editing.

Since then I've learned to love the simplicity of it, and how expressive it
can be without the burden of hundreds of different key combinations. So
I've decided to port it without adding anything extra and perhaps
experiment with a vi-acme amalgamation project some time after that.

For now, at least, it's just a fun project.

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