On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:32:09 +0200 <c...@gli.cas.cz> wrote: > > > > I also take issue with the statement "Acme is a text editor," that never > > sounds right, no more than describing Emacs as > > a text editor. It's natural to use Acme as a text editor and it provides > > many more text-editing facilities than Rio > > does, but it is also natural to use it as a file manager, shell window > > provider, email client, etc, etc. > > It provides more than Rio and it does it all with tiling windows and > > without menus, but that's just style. > > I always thought of using Acme as 'The' UI for Plan 9, much in the Oberon > way. I'm not a techie, but I use Plan 9 since 2000, or so, as my main OS. I > would *way* love having graphics in Acme, asi it IS a great UI, IMHO.
As-is it's actually not a great UI for me, but perhaps with some small changes it could be. I'm still thinking those changes over. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
