Editing Acme (text editor) (section)

{{Short description|Text editor designed by Rob Pike}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Acme
| logo                   =
| screenshot             = Acme.png
| caption                = A screenshot of '''Acme'''
| author                 = [[Rob Pike]]
| latest_release_version =
| latest_preview_version =
| operating_system       = [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]], [[Inferno (operating system)|Inferno]], [[Unix-like]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| genre                  = [[Text editor]]
| license                = [[MIT License|MIT]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sorace |first1=Anthony |title=Transfer of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation |url=https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=161650489113326|website=marc.info |access-date=2021-06-08}}</ref><br />[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os/src/default/NOTICE | title=Inferno copyright notice | publisher=Vita Nuova | access-date=2019-08-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809130007/https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os/src/default/NOTICE | archive-date=2019-08-09 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author=UC Berkeley | url=http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/files/Plan9License | title=The University of California, Berkeley, has been authorised by Alcatel-Lucent to release all Plan 9 software previously governed by the Lucent Public License, Version 1.02 under the GNU General Public License, Version 2. | access-date=2014-02-13 | archive-date=2014-02-13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213172858/http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/files/Plan9License | url-status=dead }}</ref><br />[[Lucent Public License|LPL-1.02]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/license.html | title=Lucent Public License Version 1.02 | access-date=2021-06-08 |archive-date=2003-10-03 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031003143445/http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html | url-status=dead}}</ref>
| website                = {{URL|acme.cat-v.org}}
}}

'''Acme''' is a [[text editor]] and graphical [[shell (computing)|shell]] from the [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs]] [[operating system]], designed and implemented by [[Rob Pike]]. It can use the [[Sam (text editor)|Sam]] command language. The design of the interface was influenced by [[Oberon operating system|Oberon]]. It is different from other editing environments in that it acts as a [[9P (protocol)|9P]] server. A distinctive element of the [[user interface]] is [[mouse chording]].