Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread Bruce Ellis
shut up and back to work. nothing to see here. On 3 June 2012 11:53, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 3 June 2012 02:40, Stephen Wiley wrote: >> One thing that I can see is that the 40 billion windows you open are all >> grouped together and don't get in your way when using other apps. (One of >> t

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 3 June 2012 02:40, Stephen Wiley wrote: > One thing that I can see is that the 40 billion windows you open are all > grouped together and don't get in your way when using other apps. (One of > the things I like about osx is that it does that with all the apps) > > Though I guess you could scrip

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Jun 2 20:45:23 EDT 2012, ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:31:04 BST Ethan Grammatikidis > wrote: > > Yeah, it's almost a successor to Lisp machines (except it's a not a > > good lisp, I'm told). I call it a desktop environment, myself. :) Acme > > has been called Plan

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Jun 2 21:35:19 EDT 2012, c...@lubutu.com wrote: > Hey, > > On 3 June 2012 02:12, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On a related note, what is the point of multi-file editors? I can see > > their use with a primitive OS, but given ed and a shell with loops... > > well I'd like to see what rem

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread Stephen Wiley
On Jun 2, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > ... > > On a related note, what is the point of multi-file editors? I can see > their use with a primitive OS, but given ed and a shell with loops... > well I'd like to see what remains easier in a multi-file editor. > > -- > This is obvi

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 3 June 2012 02:12, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On a related note, what is the point of multi-file editors? I can see > their use with a primitive OS, but given ed and a shell with loops... > well I'd like to see what remains easier in a multi-file editor. Don't sam's X and Y commands de

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:43:57 -0700 Bakul Shah wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:31:04 BST Ethan Grammatikidis > wrote: > > Yeah, it's almost a successor to Lisp machines (except it's a not a > > good lisp, I'm told). I call it a desktop environment, myself. :) Acme > > has been called Plan 9's e

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert

2012-06-02 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, 31 May 2012 06:30:28 -0700 Jason Catena wrote: > There is a computer science concept analogous to what Zerox does. "Pass > argument by reference" also provides a look-in to a point in memory without > copying it. So if you want to name it something else, try changing it to > CpRef. I bel

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:49:38 -0400 erik quanstrom wrote: > > Some people would love warp-to-location for Undo/Redo, some I'm sure > > would hate it. Some people can't stand that up/down arrow keys scroll > > the page rather than move the cursor (I'm not one). Acme might benefit > > from a config

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread Bakul Shah
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:31:04 BST Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > Yeah, it's almost a successor to Lisp machines (except it's a not a > good lisp, I'm told). I call it a desktop environment, myself. :) Acme > has been called Plan 9's emacs and I can't entirely disagree. Eric suggested creating a ne

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, 31 May 2012 07:32:41 -0400 Anthony Sorace wrote: > On May 31, 2012, at 0:10, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > > This "proper" English is not the language of the English people... > > "The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their > children to speak it. They spe

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-02 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 23:40:11 +0300 Antonio Barrones wrote: > On May 31, 10:01 pm, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 02:55:57PM -0400, Burton Samograd wrote: > > > > so edit/win, edit/edit, edit/dir might all be little programs that do > > > > part of what acme currently does

[9fans] for the mercurial users

2012-06-02 Thread Russ Cox
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