This is a port of many Plan 9 libraries and programs to Unix with my little fix.

Difference from plan9port

• Fix acme shortcut for linux
• Add ttf2subf and droid-sans fonts
• Testing only linux systems.
• Add acme-golang addon see here

Installation

For ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

sudo apt-get install gcc libxext-dev  libfontconfig-dev libxt-dev

For RHEL 8:

sudo dnf install gcc libXext-devel libXt-devel fontconfig-devel

Download

git clone https://github.com/ignusius/plan9port

To install, run ./INSTALL. It builds mk and then uses mk to run the rest of the installation.

For more details, see install(1), at install.txt in this directory and at https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man1/install.html.

Add PATH in ~/.profile

export PLAN9="$HOME/plan9port"
export PATH="$PATH:$PLAN9/bin"

Run acme!

Documentation

See https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/ for more documentation. (Documentation is also in this tree, but you need to run a successful install first. After that, "9 man 1 intro".)

Intro(1) contains a list of man pages that describe new features or differences from Plan 9.

Helping out

If you'd like to help out, great! The TODO file contains a small list.

If you port this code to other architectures, please share your changes so others can benefit.

Git

You can use Git to keep your local copy up-to-date as we make changes and fix bugs. See the git(1) man page here ("9 man git") for details on using Git.

Note

Fonts

Acme and fonts

You can use fontsrv, for example:

fontsrv -m ~/font/
acme  -f ~/font/Ubuntu/11a/font

or use Droid-sans font:

acme -f ~/plan9/font/droid/droid.14.font

or convert your lovely font and use it:

ttf2subf -s 14 -f example.ttf -n example -m antialias
acme -f ~/you/path/example/example.14.font

Mouse chords

Shortcuts and commands

• Edit = find out the current line number
• :13 goto 13th line
• :0 goto file beginning
• :$ goto file end
• :1,$ or :, or Edit 1,$ or Edit , select all lines
• :1,5 or Edit 1,5 select lines 1..5
• Edit , d clear window
• Edit , < echo hello world replace window body with some text
• Edit , < erl -man maps replace window body with erlang manual
• Edit , s/text/TEXT/g or Edit , | sed 's/text/TEXT/g' global replace
• $% or $samfile current file name
• $winid current window id
• echo some text | 9p write acme/$winid/body append to the end of current window
• keyboard shortcuts:
  • ctrl-c copy (snarf)
  • ctrl-v paste
  • ctrl-z undo
  • ctrl-y redo
  • ctrl-g get (Get command)
  • ctrl-s put (Put command)
  • ctrl-u delete from cursor to start of line
  • ctrl-w delete word before the cursor
  • ctrl-h delete character before the cursor
  • ctrl-a move cursor to start of the line
  • ctrl-e move cursor to end of the line
  • ctrl-i tab
  • ctrl-j enter
  • ctrl-f filepath autocompletion
• search with right click:
  • :+/foobar, :/foobar and just foobar search forward
  • :-/foobar search backwards
• press esc to select the last typed text
• press esc again to delete any selected text
• Font switch between fonts
• :/^hel regexp match: lines starting with 'hel'
• :/lo\n/ regexp match: lines ending with 'lo'
• :/^b/,/^e/ regexp match: lines between starting with 'b' and starting with 'e'
• Dump write the state of acme to the file
• Load restore from the dump
• Edit , > python pipe window body through python interpreter

Sam commands

• Edit +/hello search 'hello' forward
• Edit -/hello search 'hello' backward
• Edit , > wc -l count lines in file
• Edit , | sort sort lines
• Edit 3,5p print lines 3..5 in new window
• Edit 3,5 | upper lines 3..5 upper cased
• Edit 3,5 s/HE/he/g replace on 3..5 lines only
• Edit 2 d delete 2nd line
• Edit 2 c/new change 2nd line
• Edit 2 a/new append text after 2nd line
• Edit 2 i/new insert text before 2nd line
• Edit 2 < date replace 2nd line with the output of date
• Edit ,x/^TODAY$/ < date replace matching lines with the output of date
• Edit ,x/Plan9/ |tr a-z A-Z replace all instances of Plan9 with upper case
• Edit 3,5x/^/ a/ / indent lines 3..5 with 1 tab

Two and more open acme

script 'a'

#!/home/user/plan9/bin/rc

NAMESPACE = `{mktemp -d} 
plumber >/dev/null >[2=1] 
font = '$HOME/plan9/font/droid/droid.16.font' 
exec $PLAN9/bin/acme -c 1 -ab -f $font -F $font $* 

run a 1.txt

Contact

• Maintainer this fork: Alexander Komarov ignusius@gmail.com

• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/group/plan9port-dev

• Issue tracker: https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/issues

• Submitting changes: https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/pulls

• Russ Cox rsc@swtch.com