Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey)

[roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>]

2009/1/29 Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:49 AM,  <cej@gli.cas.cz> wrote:
>> How about turning acme to universal UI, in the style of old Oberon?
[...]
> I love acme, but I think rio's the right starting place for GUI
> things. Maybe just move the menu into a pre-populated tag, similar to
> Acme's.

i might have said this before, i can't remember, but i
reckon that rather than making acme universal, you could just
make it multi-window. currently there are many Column data
structures and a single Row. it *might* not be so hard to
allow multiple Rows, each corresponding to a window.

i'd find this very useful - my acme gets too cluttered when
i start subtasks, but i don't wish to start another acme, as it's
useful having all files under the same instance, and amenable
to the same Dump.

there is of course the issue of which window to open plumbed
files in, but i imagine (as with much of acme) that a decent heuristic
could make it feel fairly natural.

then you can have a separate terminal window with searchable
text as a free bonus.