Ask HN: Modern Acme/Wily editor clones?

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12 years ago

After spending a few days fiddling with Plan9/Inferno, the Acme editor/"IDE" has grown on me somewhat (it's an acquired taste, but exceptionally handy to, say, run a command from inside it with a click and have the output on a new buffer).

So I started asking myself if there were modern alternatives that could be used with a trackpad, had syntax highlighting and other niceties that the Plan9 zealots consider "unfeatures" (and are thus absent from Plan9 in User Space or Acme-SAC).

After all, with a new fancy Webkit-based editor coming out every month, someone would have thought of that already, right?

But, alas, no. There's http://jakme.googlecode.com (which seems little more than a PoC) and https://github.com/fmoralesc/plan9-for-vimspace (which is promising, at least for me), but nothing else I can find.

Is there anything else out there?

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