acme-lsp
plan9port
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2 | 28 | |
180 | 1,566 | |
5.6% | 0.8% | |
6.6 | 5.6 | |
3 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
Go | C | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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acme-lsp
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Personally, I find it distracting to watch huge swathes of my file change colors because I typed ", then change back as soon as I close with another ", so the lack of highlighting is great for me.
They use acme-lsp btw.
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9front “The Golden Age of Ballooning” Released
Yes. There's [acme-lsp](https://github.com/fhs/acme-lsp) for providing language server integration and things like "jump to definition", "show hover-help" and so on.
I personally use `autokey` on Linux and `sxhkd` on macOS for adding a key binding for `acme-lsp`'s `Lcomp` command which performs completion.
There's also [Watch](https://pkg.go.dev/9fans.net/go/acme/Watch) for monitoring a directory of files for changes and running a command in a persistent Acme window. I use that for continuously running unit tests while I edit some piece of code, or for automatically running `go generate` and such.
For your REPL needs, there's the `win` command that implements a basic dumb terminal as an Acme window. This provides a few goodies like letting you edit the terminal buffer with Acme's `Edit` command and its embedded Sam command language, as well as adding "snippets" that can be executed with one click of the middle mouse button.
Acme by itself is already plenty useful (`win` is part of the "standard distribution" so to speak, in that it is part of the various Plan9 forks and of plan9port), and a lot of extra stuff can be built rather quickly by hooking into its 9p interface:
For example, my tool to add commonly used tools to the tag (the blue line at the top of each text window that contains the file name and commands that act on the window) is a handful of lines of shell script that parse entries in acme's `acme/log` file and select the appropriate tools to add based on the name of newly opened files.
My Git integration is a thin wrapper around `win` and `git commit --interactive` that pops open a window that allows me to author a Git commit similar to (but a lot simpler than) magit for emacs and fugitive for Vim work.
Even if you're not in Plan9 (or one of the forks), I encourage you to give [plan9port](https://github.com/9fans/plan9port)'s Acme a spin.
(FWIW, this post was written in an Acme window because it's a lot more intuitive to use after some getting used to than regular ol' GTK text boxes used by Firefox.)
plan9port
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Only9Fans
Acme is genuinely worth trying, you can run it on Linux/Mac without a VM [1]. I'm pretty sure Russ Cox [2] and Rob Pike use it as their daily driver which is insane because it doesn't even have syntax highlighting. I used it for years when I was in school as an exercise in masochism, but I learned a lot about Unix, and the mouse-driven workflow actually grew on me.
[1]: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/
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Show HN: Towards Oberon+ concurrency; request for comments
[2] https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/
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A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, including blocking and non-blocking selects
If you find it too complicated and closely tied to Go internals, you can also check out Plan 9 from User Space's version, which is itself based on libthread from Plan 9 starting from 3rd edition, which is itself based on Alef's implementation of channels (Alef is Go's grandfather).
- A tutorial for the Sam command language (1986) [pdf]
- Makefile Tutorial
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Mk: A Successor to Make [pdf]
I tried plan9port's mk for a moment out of curiosity. I quickly ran into an annoying usability problem: it compares file mtimes with second accuracy.
https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/cc4571fec67407652b03...
With sub-second build times for individual targets, this causes mk to needlessly recompile files because the target may have the same mtime as the prerequisites.
- Plan 9 from User Space
What are some alternatives?
sam - An updated version of the sam text editor.
plan9-1e - Mirror of Plan 9 1st Edition from p9f
Fontpkg-PxPlus_IBM_VGA8 - A monospace system font in the styles of regular, italic and underline.
Shrine - A TempleOS distro for heretics
fsv - fsv is a file system visualizer in cyberspace. It lays out files and directories in three dimensions, geometrically representing the file system hierarchy to allow visual overview and analysis.
mk - make remade
nushell - A new type of shell
plan9port - Plan 9 from User Space
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
qtcurve - Style engine for Qt and other toolkits
hn-search - Hacker News Search
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