Re: plan9 building?

[Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>]

> this is a /very/ powerful concept.  it reminds me somewhat of what emacs
> would propably like to be.

well, there, i can't comment, having learned nothing of emacs apart from
how to get out of it when it unexpectedly gets invoked.

> are you running plan9


alas, no. problems of an unsuitable machine and no time to arrange for
an alternative.

> or could you give
> some associations why you think of a shell-server wrt es?

well, i wasn't entirely serious, but in most cases, the plan 9
approach is to say, "what would work well as a file server, and what
would be pushing things too far?" es's rewriting reminds me a little of
Tcl's embedded capabilities, but rather than embedding es into an application,
it could mount it. this would allow processes across the system to share
a common shell state, rather than just an environment. is this a good thing?
no idea. But it would also allow the syntax to be entirely separate from the
shell, even going as far as having a tk front end instead.

i'm just waffling here, though. this is probably really impractical.

steve