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From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] /acme/edit commands?
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 03:18:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f55468a47ef8af6ae38ddc04d19da58b@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160519044909.GA23936@staven.pl>

i misunderstood the original question.  as you noted, the Edit command
provides sam-style text editing, which is probably why nobody misses
/acme/edit.  i don't think they were in 4ed (at all or for very long);
they were in 2ed, and the commands are written in Alef.

i had forgotten about them!

>> Are the /acme/edit commands (as discussed in the Acme paper and included with
>> the Inferno version of Acme) included in Plan 9 or plan9port? If not, what is the
>> workflow replacement? Thanks.
>
> Doesn't the Edit command provide the same functionality?




  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-19 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-19  0:32 Brian Vito
2016-05-19  1:24 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-05-19  4:49 ` Staven
2016-05-19 10:18   ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2016-05-19 22:14     ` Brian Vito
2016-05-20 16:46       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-05-21  2:36         ` Brian Vito
2016-05-21  3:53           ` sl

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