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A Tour of the Acme Editor
People I work with recognize my computer easily: it's the one with nothing but yellow windows and blue bars on the screen. That's the text editor acme, written by Rob Pike for Plan 9 in the early 1990s. Acme focuses entirely on the idea of text as user interface. It's difficult to explain acme without seeing it…
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Tools & ProductivitySoftware Engineering2012
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2012 | A Tour of the Acme Editor by lnmx | 164 | 86 |
| Jul 9, 2020 | A Tour of Acme (2012) by gklitt | 95 | 59 |
| Aug 28, 2017 | A Tour of Acme (2012) [video] by tambourine_man | 62 | 21 |
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Linked from 20 Hacker News comments by 18 different people, from Oct 2012 to May 2024.
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