A Tour of Acme (2012)

Very neat. It seems to me the really interesting bit here is the ability to add execution meaning to arbitrary bits of text. Can anyone who uses Acme comment on whether or not that is primarily what gives Acme its power? Is there something else key to it that isn't shown cleanly in the video? Interestingly, I also see Light Table as an "Integrating" Development Environment - something that utilizes all the amazing tools out there and strings them together…

I use Acme (from Plan9Port) as my every-day editor for work. I run it full-screen on a 4K monitor. I've got a co-worker who likes to grumble about mice, but somehow when we're debugging something on a call, I'm always in the appropriate file at the appropriate line number long before he is :) There are some tools (acmego [9fans.net/go/acme/acmego], A [github.com/davidrjenni/A]) that make working with Go a lot more pleasant, too. I've been using Acme for about 15 years…

For the interested Plan 9 from User Space/plan9port is presently maintained at https://github.com/9fans/plan9port More acme info at http://acme.cat-v.org Acme has a cousin, sam: http://sam.cat-v.org

I remember when this was first published, I watched the video and then rushed to install plan9port and try Acme. I used it for a couple of days before going back to Emacs, but Acme did leave a very positive impression on me. - I really like how "unixy" of an editor it is; you can easily add new editing commands by writing a small program that reads from stdin and writes to stdout and use it to manipulate text…