No. Plan 9 has a different approach to editing and development environments, such that emacs and vi are not a good fit. You can check the following manual pages for details http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/acme http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/sam http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/emacs http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/vi There are discussions at length in the mailing list archive as to why such venerable editors are not used, and why there is little motivation to use them, even less port them. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist has links to all the papers and the distribution itself.