A screenshot of Acme

Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. It can use the sam command language. The design of the interface was influenced by Oberon. It is different from other editing environments in that it acts as a 9P server. A distinctive element of the interface is mouse chording. Notepad is the standard text editor for Microsoft Windows A text editor is a piece of computer software for editing plain text. ... Look up shell in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, developed at Bell Laboratories by Rob Pike and others, including some of the original UNIX developers. ... An operating system is a special computer program that manages the relationship between application software, the wide variety of hardware that makes up a computer system, and the user of the system. ... Rob Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and author. ... Sam is a multi-file text editor originally designed at Bell Labs by Rob Pike (with the help of Ken Thompson and other Unix developers) in the early 1980s for the DMD 5620 windowing terminal running Unix. ... Oberon is an operating system, originally developed as part of the NS32032-based Ceres workstation project; it is written entirely in the Oberon programming language. ... 9P, or the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol, is a network protocol developed for the Plan 9 distributed operating system as the means of connecting the components of a Plan 9 system (site). ... Mouse chording is the capability of performing actions when multiple mouse buttons are held down, much like a chorded keyboard. ...

A port to Inferno operating system is part of Inferno's default distribution. A standalone version of Inferno with acme to be used as part of the host operating system ^[1]. Inferno is an operating system for creating and supporting distributed services. ...

Acme can also act as a mail and news reader, or as a frontend to wikifs. These applications are made possible by external components interacting with Acme through its file system interface. A Newsreader or Newscaster is a radio or television presenter whose role it is to read the news. ... Wikifs is a wiki file system for the Plan 9 operating system. ...

See also

• Wily, a look-alike available for Unix. Obsoleted by the port of the original Acme as part of Plan 9 from User Space.
• sam, Rob Pike's other text editor. Predecessor of Acme.
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs
• wmii, a window manager with much inspiration from Acme.

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References

1. ↑ ACME. caerwyn.com.

External links

• Pike, Rob (1994 ?). Acme - A User Interface for Programmers.
• acme(1) acme(4), the manuals.