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From: "Rudolf Sykora" <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme/sam linewrapping off
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:39:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d00803250239y6a91da9dvf0c0e0de11f28bc6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b954b2060803250207j6d7a19ccu5c1f991aec078265@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

Well, vim@plan9 could definitely be a choice. But, doesn't it go against the
basic philosophy of Plan9 creators??!

Sam, as far as I know, was created with orthogonality and simplicity in mind
(as well as whole Plan9). It only added a few commands compared to ed. Just
what is truly needed. Vim is highly configurable, any instance of it behaves
slightly differently, and it has incomparably higher complexity, which makes
it, some would say (read E. S. Raymond's Art of unix) awful. We parhaps
really don't need that. But nowadays, you don't have a choice: neither sam
nor acme can be used.

Ruda

On 25/03/2008, Hongzheng Wang <wanghz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I understand that a speadsheet would solve the situation, but...
> > Vim has always been sufficient for the task I described, having that one
> > particular feature.
> > If acme were able of the same, it would suffice me as well...
> >
> > Ruda
> >
>
>
> Then vim@plan9 may be a good choice for your problem :-)
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-25  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-23 13:22 Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-23 16:18 ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-23 17:05   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-23 17:10     ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-23 18:04       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-23 18:14         ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-24  5:38         ` Micah Stetson
2008-03-24  9:22         ` Robert Raschke
2008-03-25  7:33           ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25  9:07             ` Hongzheng Wang
2008-03-25  9:39               ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2008-03-25 10:01                 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-03-25 14:25                   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25 14:41                     ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-25 16:28                       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-03-25 16:51                 ` ron minnich
2008-03-25 18:04                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-03-25 15:16 gdiaz
2008-03-25 16:30 ` Rudolf Sykora

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