A Tour of the Acme Editor
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In Acme, text can be selected, executed or opened. A filesystem interface lets external programs manipulate windows and integrate with the editor.
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external programs can be invoked as commands too like we did with Echoit presents to other programs as a file system on Unixthe link logic is separate from the text formattingeach time something changes in the directory it reruns the commandtext is a dynamic thing that can be executedit integrates the tools that are already on your system