Acme (text editor)

Acme is a text editor and graphical shell from the Plan 9 from Bell Labs 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 user interface is mouse chording.

Acme
A screenshot of Acme
Original author(s)Rob Pike
Operating systemPlan 9, Inferno, Unix-like, Windows
TypeProgramming Interface
LicenseLPL[1] or GPL v2[2][3]
Websiteacme.cat-v.org

Overview

Acme can be used 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. Rob Pike has mentioned that the name "Acme" was suggested to him by Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller during a movie night at Times Square when he asked for a suitable name for a text editor that does "everything".[4]

Ports

A port to the Inferno operating system is part of Inferno's default distribution. Inferno can run as an application on top of other operating systems, allowing Inferno's port of acme to be used on most operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux. A project called acme: stand alone complex intends to make acme run as a standalone application on the host operating system.[5]

A working port of acme for Unix-like operating systems is included in Plan 9 from User Space, a collection of various ported programs from Plan 9. Currently it has been tested on a variety of operating systems including: Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and SunOS.

Notable Acme users

See also

References
  1. "Lucent Public License Version 1.02". Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. "Inferno copyright notice". Vita Nuova. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  3. UC Berkeley. "The University of California, Berkeley, has been authorised by Alcatel-Lucent to release all Plan 9 software previously governed by the Lucent Public License, Version 1.02 under the GNU General Public License, Version 2". Retrieved 2014-02-13.
  4. "Acme FAQ". cat-v. Retrieved 2013-01-25.
  5. "acme: stand alone complex". caerwyn.com.
  6. Jensen-Urstad, Anders (15 October 2015). "Screenshots from developers & Unix people (2002)". Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
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