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I was semi-joking in reference to the comment, the Plan9 and suckless communities are famous for being very hard-headed about programming being the only way to customize their software. For example, I use dwm - http://dwm.suckless.org/ and like it a lot, though I wish they would change this aspect. I am not criticizing what you did in any way, in fact it looks very nice in comparison to great many similar projects, nice code and interesting design.

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I know, I know. I don't take it that personally, just was clarifying why I wrote it and that it's not necessary how I write software.

Good on you! Is this just for editing "go" or more generic?

I use it for all text editing. Starting from config files and ending with Go/C/C++/Python/bash.

>the Plan9 and suckless communities

Are two totally separate things and you are painting them both with the suckless brush. The plan9 community is nothing like that at all.

I remember some poor guy asking about syntax highlighting in Acme and the reaction was pretty similar...

Syntax highlighting is not a simple configuration option, it is a whole huge subsystem that has to be written.

http://9fans.net/archive/2008/08/134

Did you read that? It does not support your notion that the plan9 community thinks programming is the way to customize software. It shows that the plan9 community thinks you shouldn't do those things, at all. They are not missing because you should edit the code to change them, they are missing because they should never exist.

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