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A Tour of the Acme Editor
Russ Cox · Sep 17, 2012 · 23m 16s
What this video covers
Russ Cox gives a 23-minute tour of the Acme text editor from Plan 9, showing its mouse-driven interface, executing commands from text, and its filesystem-based interface to other programs.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
HN points people to it as the best introduction to Acme and its very different take on editors, shells, and GUIs.
11.5recommendation score
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“Russ Cox has a great video tour of Acme's features here”
“(excellent overview of the editor by Russ Cox)”
“What inspired me to work this way was this video on the acme editor”