Re: [9fans] text editor

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

the part that is painful is, as rog said, the differences
and inconsistencies.  every time you try to do something
and wily doesn't quite behave the same way, it hurts.

the most notable one is the different handling of
Put when the file has been changed underneath you.
i realize this was a design decision, but it's just
weird when you're used to the acme behavior.
and if you don't know how to use the wilybak
directory (which i don't, really) then it's hard
to get the file back.

another difference is the behavior of arrow keys.
in acme, if i type an up or down arrow, the screen
scrolls up or down half a page.  in wily, if i type one
of the arrow keys, the cursor moves!  if i wanted
to move the cursor, i would have clicked somewhere
with the mouse like god, rob, and tog intended.

of course, plan 9 didn't have arrow keys when wily
started, and so wily and acme have separately defined
meaning for them.  but it's unfortunate that wily caved
to the keystrokes-for-positioning factions.

it also bothers me that wily is so much less dense
than acme as far as fitting things on the screen.
there's far too much white space above and below the
text in the tag lines.

it's the little things.  wily is still my choice
of editor for unix.  it just annoys me when i use it.