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Acme for Windows

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-doing-fun-things dept.

jacoplane writes "You may remember Rob Pike from his Slashdot interview. Since his interview, his two-dimensional text editors have experienced many improvements and ports including license improvements. A port to Inferno has been around for awhile. Recently a standalone version has been made for Windows based on the Inferno port. Linux users are in luck as the native port is now legally distributable."

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  1. Wait, what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. It can use the sam command language. The design of the interface was influenced by Oberon. It is different from other editing environments in that it acts as a 9P server. A distinctive element of the interface is mouse chording.
    ...I'm sorry, but I read your wikipedia link and I still have no idea what this program is supposed to be :O

    I read this and I imagine Data saying "Captain. I have an idea. If we reverse the tachyon coefficient to the digital anomoly drives, we can invert the neutrino wave probe." And Patrick Stewart says, "Do it."
  2. 3D? by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    his two-dimensional text editors

    How does it differ from a three-dimensional text editor? Is that one where the letters get stuck in your nose such that you have to grab a Kleenex if you make a typo?

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    Table-ized A.I.