Acme

The eerily fascinating (and hopelessly retro) editor.

The thing is still finicky to use without a mouse and I’ve yet to get it to work properly with accented characters on Linux (not a big deal for coding or writing, but annoying), but it’s grown on me a fair bit. Oh, and you’ll need to use -f / -F and fontsrv to set a decent font, or you’ll go insane.

Resources

Category Date Link Notes
Clones 2023 Wily

an X11 clone

2016 the de editor

An Acme-like editor written in Go

Reference 2014 Acme as an editor

A few interesting notes on setting it up

Extensibility in Acme

How to extend and script it

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