Acme
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Acme, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Acme's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Acme | Free | No paid tiers or usage limits stated |
The facts
Each one read from Acme's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Editing interface
- Its interactive interface uses a keyboard and mouse, with windows arranged in columns.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editor type
- desktopchecked 20 Sep 2026
- External commands
- Users can run shell commands from Acme, and route selected text through a command’s input and output.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The project can be obtained through Git or as a tar file and built by running ./INSTALL.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The Plan 9 plumber connects programs, and its web command can open a clicked URL in Firefox.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended audience
- The manual describes Acme as a programmer-oriented interface and references Rob Pike’s paper, “Acme: A User Interface for Programmers.”checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The project license grants permission to use, copy, modify, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell copies of the software, subject to its conditions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limitation
- Acme’s -m option for mounting itself with FUSE is marked experimental.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Programmatic control
- Acme serves files that external programs use to read, write, and control its windows.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Acme manages text windows that can be edited interactively or by external programs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project lists a plan9port-dev mailing list and a GitHub issue tracker for contact.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Text editing
- Acme includes search, undo and redo, autoindent, and Sam-style text editing commands.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- Plan 9 from User Space lists Linux and Mac OS X among its supported systems.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- Linux,macOSchecked 20 Sep 2026
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