A Tour of the Acme Editor

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points people to it as the best introduction to Acme and its very different take on editors, shells, and GUIs.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Russ Cox

Topic

acme text editor

Format

tutorial

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

11

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• It's sad that Acme hasn't been mentioned at all. While its mouse-oriented nature is a little strange coming from Vim, there are some very awesome ideas in it. For one: It lets you write plugins in anything you like. This is because all aspects of …

• Rob Pike's acme text editor for the Plan 9 operating system: [LINK] [VIDEO] (excellent overview of the editor by Russ Cox) And acme's predecessor sam: [LINK] You'll need plan9port to run acme on Linux, though. But the core ideas are very simple and powerful (sam: …

• On tmux, I use split panels more often than tabs. Usually, there will be from 2 to 8 panels of different sizes. This gives me spacial short term memory: I know what each shell is by the panel position. I can zoom on then to …