A Tour of Plan 9's Acme Editor

Russ Cox · Tutorial · YouTube title: A Tour of the Acme Editor

Why it's here

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

What it covers

Russ Cox gives a 23-minute tour of the Acme text editor from Plan 9, showing its mouse-driven interface, executing commands from text, and its filesystem-based interface to other programs.