Other Acme Editors

This page contains a short list of other text editors inspired by Acme.

  • Peak is an Acme-inspired TUI Text Editor written by Aleksanna, who also packaged Anvil for nix.

  • acme2k is a customized version of the Acme source code that allows simpler user customization through a config.h header, adds up and down arrow key support, and standard keybindings. It runs on Plan 9, or on Unices using plan9port.

  • Acme Standalone Complex packages the Acme source code along with Inferno to allow running Acme on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

  • Wily is probably one of the earliest editors that emulated Acme. The code can be found on github.

  • Edwood is a Go port of Acme.

  • Ad is a terminal editor that mixes ideas from vim and Acme.

  • A is an editor inspired by Acme and Sam written in Go.

  • Yacco is an editor inspired by Acme written in Go. A nice idea in Yacco is that CTRL-LeftMouse executes text. It uses the Go Shiny GUI library.

  • Z is an Acme inspured editor written in Scala which runs on the Java Virtual Machine.

  • Poe is an Acme inspired terminal-based text editor written in Go. It uses tcell for rendering.

There are a few lists of Acme-related things: