From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Blake McBride Message-ID: References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Emacs Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:53:24 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a7c5bc62-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 wrote in message news:b62213a9d106154c091c7e3ffdc6c552@9fs.org... > 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. > What? The vi & emacs pages say nothing of any use, sam is a basic, raw text editor, and acme - see sam. Little motivation? I would think that having a full featured editor would be quite appealing to a developer. Not to be offensive, but sam seems like notepad. Surely you would agree that emacs is better than notepad. Anyway, I'm embarking on a project which only requires a C compiler and an editor. I thought I'd do it on Plan 9 but, to be perfectly honest with you, I really have to have a powerful editor in order to remain productive. --blake