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From: "rob pike" <rob@pla...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sam & rio
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:34:55 -0500

I regret that sam doesn't do chorded cut and paste, and have tried
several times to fix that deficiency, but the split design of sam
causes a division of labor that makes chording very difficult.  The
same applies to scrolling when selecting.

On the other hand, I find the monolithic design of acme limits its
ability to do some other things, such as work well over slow links.

If win worked as a file system serving /dev/cons itself, it would
behave a little better, but there would still be a race between where
acme puts stuff and where win thinks it is.  That is fixable by
extending acme's external interface somewhat, but at that point you've
built three levels of file system serving /dev/cons and it seems like
overkill to me.  My solution is not to run win much, either.  I always
thought of it as an expedient workaround.  Acme iself is already a
shell.

-rob