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Welcome to acme, the editor/shell/window system hybrid. Acme is a
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complete environment you can use to edit, run programs, browse the
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file system, etc.
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You can scroll the text this window by moving the mouse into
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the window (no clicking necessary) and typing the up and down
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arrows.
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When you start Acme, you see several windows layered into two
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columns. Above each window, you can see a ``tag line'' (in blue). The
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first thing to notice is that all the text you see is just that:
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text. You can edit anything at will.
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For example, in the left column is a directory window.
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If you look at the window's tag line, you will see that it contains
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/usr/glenda/ Del Snarf Get | Look
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(This might be truncated if the column is narrow.)
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That is just text.
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Each mouse button (1, 2, 3, from left to right) does a different
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thing in Acme:
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* Button 1 can be used to select text (press it, sweep, release it),
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and also to select the point where text would be inserted in the
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window. Use it now in your /usr/glenda window.
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* Button 2 can be used to execute things. For example, use button 1
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to type "ls -l" before "lib/" in the window showing
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/usr/glenda. Now use button 2 to select "ls -l lib/" (press
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it, select, release it). As you can see, button 2 means
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"execute this".
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* Button 3 can be used to get things. For example, click button 3 on
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"lib/" within the "/usr/glenda" window. Can you see how a new window
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shows the contents of "/usr/glenda/lib"? Button 3 can also be used
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to search within the body of a window. Just click button 3 on the
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thing you want to search. Again, you can select something with
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button 1 and then use button 3 on the selection.
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You can double-click with button 1 to select words; a double click at
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the end or beginning of a line selects the whole line. Once you have
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text selected, you can click on it with button 2 to execute the
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selected text. A single click of button 2 would execute the word
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clicked as a command.
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Now let's pay attention to the tag line once more. As you can see,
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the left part has a path. That is the name for the window and shows
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also the directory for the thing shown (file/directory/program
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output). When you execute something using button 2, the current
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directory for the command is the directory shown in the left part of
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the tag (if the thing shown is a file, its directory is used).
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As you saw before in the example, there are windows labeled
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"/dir/+Errors", that is where Acme shows the output of a command
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executed in "/dir".
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Another thing you can see is that tag lines contain words like "New",
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"Del", "Snarf", etc. Those are commands understood (implemented) by
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Acme. When you request execution of one of them, Acme does the job.
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For example, click with button 2 on "Del" in the
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"/usr/glenda/+Errors" window: it's gone.
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The commands shown by Acme are just text and by no means special. Try
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to type "Del" within the body of the window "/usr/glenda", and then
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click (button-2) on it.
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These are some commands understood by Acme:
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* Newcol: create a new column of windows
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* Delcol: delete a column
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* New: create a new window (edit it's tag to be a file name and you
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would be creating a new file; you would need to click on "Put" to
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put the file in the file system).
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* Put: write the body to disk. The file is the one named in the tag.
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* Get: refresh the body (e.g. if it's a directory, reread it and
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show it).
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* Snarf: What other window systems call "Copy".
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* Paste: Can you guess it?
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* Exit: exit acme
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Acme likes to place new windows itself. If you prefer to change the
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layout of a window, you only need to drag the layout box at the left
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of the tag line and drop it somewhere else. The point where you drop
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it selects the column where the window is to be placed now, as well
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as the line where the window should start. You can also click the
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layout box to enlarge its window a small amount (button 1), as much
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as possible without obscuring other tag lines in the column (button
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2), and to fill the whole column (button 3). You can get your other
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windows back by button-1- or button-2-clicking the layout box.
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This is mostly what you need to get started with Acme. You are
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missing a very useful feature: using combinations (chords) of mouse
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buttons to do things. You can cut, paste, snarf, and pass arguments
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to programs using these mouse chords. You can read this in the
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acme(1) manual page, but it's actually extremely simple: Select a
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region with button 1 but don't release the button. Now clicking
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button 2 deletes the selected text (putting it into the snarf
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buffer); clicking button 3 replaces the selected text with the snarf
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buffer. That's it!
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For more information, read /sys/doc/acme/acme.ps (you can just
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button-3 click on that string to view the file).
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