the "everything is a file" metaphor
Frankly I never got it until recently. Sure, I had some informal contacts with plan 9, the OS that is entirely designed around that concept. First when Linus talked about the features he borrowed for Linux, later I borrowed myself features from Plan 9's editor acme for Kephra. But yesterday I saw a talk from the author of MacFuse and I really got a hang of it.
And suddenly I realized the implications for a better Kephra that I currently design. When it read and writes FIles it should have hooks to do whatever (aka *). Not only be able to write files on remote machines via ftp/sftp/*. But also use it to literally edit *. I mean, why do I have to use the clunky Wiki editors, when I can have Kephra, where I'm twice as fast and can store the relevant parts of everything i write in the right places for later reuse? Even that box i currently typing in sucks compared to any decent editor. And please with the right module (Mechanize and friends) its a handful lines to do that.
I really enjoy this (4th or 5th) rewrite.
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I think of acme (and sam) as the finest editors I had worked with, so I'm very interested in knowing more of what you've borrowed from acme to Kephra.
Thanks for the interest. The most recen version of Kephra somewhat emulate the mighty click behaviour of acme, usind all 3 buttens and click combination even disting if clicking on and off the selection. This way you can drop the most importnat commands insantly without menus, looking for the right icon or typing.