[wellylug] text viewer

Michael Robinson michael at diaspora.gen.nz
Thu Oct 27 11:55:10 NZDT 2005


> Why does wily exist?  What problem does it solve?

wily exists because it's a Unix port of the Plan 9 text editor, Acme.
And the Plan 9 guys had a religious thing about minimalist interfaces :).

You can find more about the rationale behind Acme in the Plan 9 papers:

    Acme: A User Interface for Programmers
    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acme/acme.html

    Papers (Plan 9 wiki)
    http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Papers/index.html

Plan 9 is a successor operating system to Unix, developed by the same
people at Bell Labs.

    -- michael.




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