Acme (Plan 9)
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Acme is a multiwindow editor and shell under the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. It was designed and implemented by Rob Pike.
Acme is different from other editing environments in that it acts as a file server under Plan 9. Indeed, Acme can be used as a mail reader: it thus then serves the mail filesystem.
Acme makes use of mouse chording, a deeply integrated feature in the operating system. The user interface design of Acme was influenced by the GUI of the Oberon operating system.
There is an Acme look-a-like called Wily available for Unix platforms.
External links
- Acme: A User Interface for Programmers (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acme/acme.html)
- a port of acme to Unix (http://swtch.com/plan9port)