beeznatchApr 21, 2025
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

Me: I wish there were something like acme/help that wasn’t mouse-centric…seamless text editing and command execution and tiling windows and shell integration.

Emacs: Hey

Me: No

Emacs: I’m literally the guy in the pic

#unix #plan9 #emacs

Apr 21, 2025 at 7:43pmWeb
Show threadスパックマン クリスApr 21, 2025

@rk

I know they say emacs is an operating system with a bad text editor, but I happen to think emacs is a great text editor, that also happens to be almost an operating system.

Show threadAnthony SoraceApr 22, 2025
@rk Theoretically, what do you think acme would have to have to qualify? Window & tag selection, presumably, but what else? I’ve often wanted something like the Canon Cat’s Leap search.
Show threadrk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyApr 22, 2025

@a

I wrote a Canon Cat-like editor using GTK+ way back in the day, and toyed around with Archie (in Python).

IMHO, Leap is kinda uncomfortable unless you’ve got Leap keys under the spacebar…

(I was >< this close to winning a Canon Cat on eBay in like 2008. I’m still bitter I missed it.)