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diff --git a/usr/glenda/readme.acme b/usr/glenda/readme.acme deleted file mode 100644 index 18cc16ad0..000000000 --- a/usr/glenda/readme.acme +++ /dev/null @@ -1,102 +0,0 @@ -Welcome to acme, the editor/shell/window system hybrid. Acme is a -complete environment you can use to edit, run programs, browse the -file system, etc. - -You can scroll the text this window by moving the mouse into -the window (no clicking necessary) and typing the up and down -arrows. - -When you start Acme, you see several windows layered into two -columns. Above each window, you can see a ``tag line'' (in blue). The -first thing to notice is that all the text you see is just that: -text. You can edit anything at will. - -For example, in the left column is a directory window. -If you look at the window's tag line, you will see that it contains - - /usr/glenda/ Del Snarf Get | Look - -(This might be truncated if the column is narrow.) -That is just text. - -Each mouse button (1, 2, 3, from left to right) does a different -thing in Acme: - - * Button 1 can be used to select text (press it, sweep, release it), - and also to select the point where text would be inserted in the - window. Use it now in your /usr/glenda window. - * Button 2 can be used to execute things. For example, use button 1 - to type "ls -l" before "lib/" in the window showing - /usr/glenda. Now use button 2 to select "ls -l lib/" (press - it, select, release it). As you can see, button 2 means - "execute this". - * Button 3 can be used to get things. For example, click button 3 on - "lib/" within the "/usr/glenda" window. Can you see how a new window - shows the contents of "/usr/glenda/lib"? Button 3 can also be used - to search within the body of a window. Just click button 3 on the - thing you want to search. Again, you can select something with - button 1 and then use button 3 on the selection. - -You can double-click with button 1 to select words; a double click at -the end or beginning of a line selects the whole line. Once you have -text selected, you can click on it with button 2 to execute the -selected text. A single click of button 2 would execute the word -clicked as a command. - -Now let's pay attention to the tag line once more. As you can see, -the left part has a path. That is the name for the window and shows -also the directory for the thing shown (file/directory/program -output). When you execute something using button 2, the current -directory for the command is the directory shown in the left part of -the tag (if the thing shown is a file, its directory is used). - -As you saw before in the example, there are windows labeled -"/dir/+Errors", that is where Acme shows the output of a command -executed in "/dir". - -Another thing you can see is that tag lines contain words like "New", -"Del", "Snarf", etc. Those are commands understood (implemented) by -Acme. When you request execution of one of them, Acme does the job. -For example, click with button 2 on "Del" in the -"/usr/glenda/+Errors" window: it's gone. - -The commands shown by Acme are just text and by no means special. Try -to type "Del" within the body of the window "/usr/glenda", and then -click (button-2) on it. - -These are some commands understood by Acme: - * Newcol: create a new column of windows - * Delcol: delete a column - * New: create a new window (edit it's tag to be a file name and you - would be creating a new file; you would need to click on "Put" to - put the file in the file system). - * Put: write the body to disk. The file is the one named in the tag. - * Get: refresh the body (e.g. if it's a directory, reread it and - show it). - * Snarf: What other window systems call "Copy". - * Paste: Can you guess it? - * Exit: exit acme - -Acme likes to place new windows itself. If you prefer to change the -layout of a window, you only need to drag the layout box at the left -of the tag line and drop it somewhere else. The point where you drop -it selects the column where the window is to be placed now, as well -as the line where the window should start. You can also click the -layout box to enlarge its window a small amount (button 1), as much -as possible without obscuring other tag lines in the column (button -2), and to fill the whole column (button 3). You can get your other -windows back by button-1- or button-2-clicking the layout box. - -This is mostly what you need to get started with Acme. You are -missing a very useful feature: using combinations (chords) of mouse -buttons to do things. You can cut, paste, snarf, and pass arguments -to programs using these mouse chords. You can read this in the -acme(1) manual page, but it's actually extremely simple: Select a -region with button 1 but don't release the button. Now clicking -button 2 deletes the selected text (putting it into the snarf -buffer); clicking button 3 replaces the selected text with the snarf -buffer. That's it! - -For more information, read /sys/doc/acme/acme.ps (you can just -button-3 click on that string to view the file). - |