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+## The beginning
+
+My very first code editor was visual studio 2010 for windows 7. This was
+when I didn't know what programming was, and a teacher I had suggested
+that we used that, so we could start learning some C#. It was very fun and
+all, but soon after, I decided that I wanted to learn another language,
+and the whole idea of using an IDE which is specialized for a specific
+programming language or environment just seemed very odd to me. Surely
+there had to be better options, where I as a user could decide by myself
+what languages I wanted support for. I tried out multiple different
+small editors but didn't really like any of them.
+
+After some time, I decided that I wanted to try linux, and I installed
+fedora or linux mint (don't remember at this point), and I liked it very
+much. Comming from windows where it is normal just to go to a random
+website and download the tools I needed, it was a great joy to be able
+to just type a command in the terminal and watch my program get installed.
+
+## First try: vim
+
+After reading online for some time, it seemed that the editor which
+all the cool linux users used was vim, so I decided to learn that. The
+experience was very different from what I was used to, but I liked the
+keyboard shortcuts and that it looked very cool. Of course I installed
+every plugin that I had read about online and it all became a mess,
+but I stuck with it for around 3-4 years. The things I liked the most
+was that I felt it was very fast to do what I wanted, but unfortunately
+the flow with multiple files was never something I could get used to,
+and all the plugins made me sick.
+
+## Second try: emacs
+
+Just to give another very popular editor a try, I installed emacs sometime
+2-3 years ago. Comming from vim, the keyboard shortcuts in emacs sucks,
+but the editor itself is just so much more powerful, because plugins and
+customisations could be written in a real programming language. I started,
+as many other emacs users do, to use emacs for everything i could. I read
+my mails, watched PDFs, managed my system, and even used it as my window
+manager for a period. Around the same time that I started using emacs,
+I also started using OpenBSD as a secondary operating system. I noticed
+that many very good tools are available in unix, but emacs almost has
+everything implemented again in elisp, which seemed stupid to me. But hey,
+it works so I stuck with it. Until late 2019.
+
+## Now acme
+
+One day in school when one of my group mates asked if I could look at
+something for him, I saw that he was using visual studio code, which
+made it natural to use a mouse to click around in the file. Of course
+this was also possible in emacs, but since I came from vim, it was never
+something that I did. He argued that it was much faster to just click in
+the file where he wanted to edit, than to navigate using the keyboard, and
+I thought that maybe he was right, so I started digging. After some time
+looking though the internet for some editors which made much use of the
+mouse, I found acme and decided to install it. And wow it was different.
+
+[![A picture of acme in action][1]][1]
+
+Acme uses the mouse for everything, since there are very few keyboard
+shortcuts (not even copy and paste). As shown on the picture, there are no
+menus and no icons; everything is just text, and the different buttons on
+the mouse can interpret that text in different ways. For example, middle
+clicking on the text `New` wil create a new text frame, and right clicking
+on the text `example` will search the file for the word. Actually, it is
+more advanced than that since the right click will first send the selected
+text to something called the plumber, which might do something fun like
+opening the file which has that name. I suggest interrested readers to
+read the page [here](http://acme.cat-v.org/) and some of the documents
+linked from that site to learn more about acme. The video introduction
+from Russ Cox [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M) is
+also great.
+
+
+## What I like about acme
+
+* **The colours**: they cannot be changed without modifying the source,
+but luckily for me, I love those pale bright colours. In fact, there
+are the very reason this website has the colours that it has.
+
+* **Writing commands**: since acme allows users to control it via the 9P
+protocol (if you don't understand, read the links above), it is possible
+to write "plugins" or commands in whatever language I want. After
+just creating a program with the needed functionality, it is possible
+to write the name somewhere and middle click on it, just like it was
+always there. Not may editors makes it possible to use the environment
+as much as acme does, which was also one of my wonders about emacs back
+then. It allows me to turn it into *my* IDE using whatever tools I see fit,
+instead of depending on support directly in the editor.
+
+* **Everything as text**: this means that if I run a gdb session via
+the `win` command, it is totally possible for me to just scroll up in the
+history and delete lines which are not important, and to write notes
+as I debug. Also, since commands are just text which is clicked, it is
+possible to have a document with commands which are useful in a given
+project, which I can then open and click.
+
+* **Lack of customisation**: while this might seem strange, comming from
+a vim and emacs background, it surely is wonderful to have an editor
+which does *not* encourage the user to customise the hell out of it. I
+have spent way too much time doing this in the past and it had to stop.
+
+* **Lack of syntax highlighting and auto completion**: some people love
+it and can't live without it, but I very much prefer to learn the syntax
+of the language based on the contents, not based on some colours an
+editor throws at me. Also I feel like I learn and remember much better
+when there is no auto completion.
+
+## Other editors I use sometimes
+
+Sometimes I have to do very small editing tasks, and sometimes as root,
+in which case it is just simpler to open the file in vi. Note that this
+is the small vi, and not the "improved" vim. I also sometimes edit my
+text in sam with is another editor written by Rob Pike, and I quite like
+that one too for smaller projects. You can read more about sam
+[here](http://sam.cat-v.org/).
+
+[1]: /images/acme-in-action.png
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+* Note: Last updated on 2020/05/28
+
+# Operating system
+
+I mostly use [guix][1]  but sometimes I need software that is not yet
+ported, and then I use [fedora][2]. If I could, I would use [9front][3]
+alot more, since the system is much better and different in my opinion. I
+also like [OpenBSD][4] alot.
+
+# Text editor
+
+Acme from plan9port. Sometimes I use emacs if I have to edit scheme code, since automatic closing of matching `(` and `)` makes life much easier.
+
+# Shell
+
+I use the [rc shell][5] since it works nicely in both acme and 9term from plan9port. Also I like its syntax alot more than the syntax of bash.
+
+# Web browser
+
+Mainy firefox (this page is only tested on firefox, so please let me
+know if you have problems on other browsers).
+
+# Laptop
+
+I use a Lenovo Thinkpad E495 with an AMD ryzen 3700U and 16 gigabytes
+of ram. It is a fairly good computer for the price, and OpenBSD is
+supported out of the box with the exception of wifi. For this reason, I
+have small usb wifi dongle that is constantly plugged in, which performs a
+lot worse than what some people would like, but for me it is no big deal.
+
+
+# Mouse and keyboard
+
+Since I have never been a fan of touchpads on laptops, I use an external
+mouse which is a Logitech MX Master 3. I also have a keyboard that I
+sometimes plug in if I have to do more writing than what I can comfortably
+do on my laptop. The keyboard is from the coolermaster masterkeys lite L
+bundle. Clicking in acme using the scroll wheel instead of using a true
+3-button mouse is sometimes a bit annoying, but its OK.
+
+
+[1]: https://guix.gnu.org/
+[2]: https://getfedora.org/
+[3]: http://9front.org/
+[4]: https://openbsd.org/
+[5]: https://plan9.io/sys/doc/rc.html
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