>does not have any scripting language
>custom commands can be written in any language, from shell script to C
>doesn't try to be anything more than an helper interface to use commands for development
>simple mouse commands that actually helps you in your job
>structured regex everywhere
>utf-8 everywhere, no fucks given to other encodings
Acme is what emacs (and all IDEs in general) should have been
Michael Cook
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Hunter Kelly
How do I write a content-aware region-commenting function for Acme?
For instance, selecting a region and running this command should prefix every line with # in shell scripts, but wrap them with /* .. */ in C.
Jace Carter
Will not be aware, but
>select the region you want to comment
>run the command "Edit s/^//g"
>done
Zachary Morris
OK, but how? Where is the code?
Alexander Ross
You can use the window tag.
You can write on it.
Jace Nguyen
Nolan Walker
Good post, but wtf is this breathing shit I hear in the video
Evan Sanders
You can write in any language you want (theoretically), all you need is the language to implement 9p
Anthony Moore
i wish there was a better implementation of acme that didn't rely on all of plan9port.
I know there's acme-sac, but for some reason it feels really sluggish for larger files.
Alexander Ramirez
but there are tons of stuff you could use from plan9port, like the plumber.
The rules update got kinda screwed because the plumber uses 9p to do it, but you can stop and start it again and it works.
And there's one from c9x called "editor", which is basically vi + acme, but i tried to compile it but it didn't work.
c9x.me
Julian Robinson
Ditching line oriented terminal emulators was one of the smartest Plan 9 moves
Dominic Butler
>And there's one from c9x called "editor", which is basically vi + acme, but i tried to compile it but it didn't work.
works on my machine :^) you gotta have the literal programming tools installed (cweave from the cweb package).
it's a nice editor, and the source code is really clean, i like c9x's stuff, but it feels too tailored to the developers personal tastes.
Dominic Lee
Sounds great, does it have C++ highlighting support?
Dominic Hughes
highlighting is not supported.
It's actually bad for programming
Jack Lewis
If a typical Linux user wanted to give acme a try, where should he start?
Blake Barnes
install plan9ports
Evan Thomas
russ cox was masturbating to acme as he filmed
Ayden Williams
Brain dead unixism that falls down whenever you need to do anything slightly complicated.
The holy grail of customization is to provide facilities to edit the code that is running out of the box, recompiling only the section that needs to be updated, and patching the code in memory without ever having to restart the program, seeing the changes instantly on the screen as soon as you press a button. And without having to wrestle with some utterly retarded build system like autotools or cmake, install dependencies etc.
If it was possible on a 5 MHz machine with 500 kB of RAM, it should be possible on today's computers.
Evan Brown
there's no highlighting for anything
its bad
Zachary Cook
>slightly complicated
what is slightly complicated?
generally it only falls apart on things that are misunderstanded
most of things can boil down to just simple files and some programs easily work with these files.
Christopher Johnson
> And without having to wrestle with some utterly retarded build system like autotools or cmake, install dependencies etc.
You don't need to compile acme retard