acme Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Different Strokes for Different Folks

  Everyone should try Acme for a month and then go back to your favourite editor. http://acme.cat-v.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

  Hmm, so while he was busy optimizing and learning and tweaking his keyboard setup, others invent game changing programming languages like Go, and then also write text editors that make heavy use of the mouse, and of mouse chording: http://acme.cat-v.org/ So I’m sceptical whether this approach of spending ages on this really is that productive, cost-benefit-wise. Usually it doesn’t stop there, but this optimization... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

  Uzbl (https://www.uzbl.org/) used to do that but it seems it was too heavy in practice. Today I'm more interestea in turning the web into a more textual format to integrate it in acme (http://acme.cat-v.org/) which is already built around modularity. Making the web a content provider and letting me interact withit the way I want. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Using Acme and Inferno's shell as a pkm tool [repost]

  As you may have guessed form my username, I enjoy the acme editor. Source: 12 months ago

• Just remember you are blessed with font choice. Arial on code is actual nightmare fuel.

  Back in the Plan 9 days, with the acme text editor, a non-monospace font was default and fairly common to use. Whilst I was a command line guy before and still a command line guy after, the dynamic font width wasn't *too* bad once you get used to it (Though yes, it is less efficient). Source: about 1 year ago

• Telegraph and the Unix Shell

  ...Should I link to this page or does that count as enabling? Source: over 1 year ago

• I made a tool that lets you run shell commands from any text input on your system

  Reminds me of ACME, the "graphical shell is also an IDE". You could execute arbitrary text anywhere with the mouse. Source: over 1 year ago

• Light mode color scheme recs?

  I prefer little-to-none syntax highlighting -- lately I have been using a slightly modified version of acme.vim, which is based on the colors of Rob Pike's Acme editor for Plan9. Very simply and easy on the eyes. Source: over 1 year ago

• What have we lost? (Demo of exotic OSes – Genera, Interlisp, BTRON, IBM I)

  For those that like playing with arcane commands and systems; check out "Plan 9 from User Space"[0]. A port of Plan9's default applications that runs on Linux or MacOSX. ACME[1], a text editor, is a great starting point. [0] https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/ [1] http://acme.cat-v.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Unpopular opinion: actually, Emacs does fulfill the tenets of the UNIX philosophy

  They have their own thing, they call sam. http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/sam or Acme http://acme.cat-v.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?

  Rob Pike's acme text editor for the Plan 9 operating system: http://acme.cat-v.org/ And its predecessor sam: http://sam.cat-v.org You'll need plan9port to run acme on Linux, though. But the core ideas are very simple and powerful (sam: everything is a huge string; acme: everything is a clickable file) and thus hopefully long-lasting. I would also mention edbrowse, a line-oriented web browser initially for blind... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• A case against syntax highlighting

  This is why https://play.golang.org/ has a simple layout with no highlight syntax :) * based on http://acme.cat-v.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• xorg sucks, use swc

  Text editor: acme (boarderline bloat), Vim (boarderline bloat), neovim (better), Vis (best), or sam, Nano (if you don't need/want a modal editor), Emacs. Source: about 3 years ago