[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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