A short description of my Acme setup

• Written: 2020-06-26T18:52:28+02:00
• Last modified: 2024-01-16T18:46:47+02:00

This is a short description of my Acme setup, mostly so that I don’t forget the details.

• editinacme as my $EDITOR, patched to allow editing of nonexistent files
• Watch installed with go install github.com/9fans/go/acme/Watch@latest
• acme-lsp
• acme-support

And Acme from plan9port.

LSP

I use gopls as the language server for Go development, clangd for C/C++, and rls for Rust.

Hardware

I mostly use Acme with an Evoluent VerticalMouse 4, because that makes things like the 2-1 chord easier to perform and a vertical mouse is easier on the wrist than a regular flat mouse.

If I’m not at my desk, using Acme with just the touchpad and Ctrl/Alt (on Linux) or Command/Option (on MacOS) works nicely as well.

Scripts

This is the script I use to start Acme:

 1#!/bin/bash
 2
 3# Starts all the stuff required for Acme to work nicely
 4
 5if [[ -z $(pgrep plumber) ]]; then
 6	9 plumber
 7fi
 8
 9if [[ -z $(pgrep fontsrv) ]]; then
10	9 fontsrv &
11fi
12
13if [[ -z "$fontsz" ]]; then
14	fontsz=14
15fi
16
17acme -a -f /mnt/font/GoMono/${fontsz}a/font -F /mnt/font/GoRegular/${fontsz}a/font "$@" &
18
19sleep 1
20acmefocused &
21acme-lsp &
22Adefaults &

Adefaults is the following script. It adds default options to the tag line of various Acme windows, depending on the file name:

 1#!/bin/bash
 2
 39p read acme/log | while read line; do
 4	winid=$(echo "$line" | cut -d' ' -f1)
 5	action=$(echo "$line" | cut -d' ' -f2)
 6	fname=$(echo "$line" | cut -d' ' -f3-)
 7
 8	if [[ "$action" != "new" ]]; then
 9		continue
10	fi
11
12	if [[ -d "$fname" ]]; then
13		cd "$fname" >/dev/null 2>&1 || continue
14
15		# Directory listing
16		# If it's in a git repo, add a few git commands to the tag
17		if git status >/dev/null 2>&1; then
18			printf "Gci Gpush " | 9p write acme/$winid/tag
19		fi
20
21		cd "$HOME"
22	else
23		# Regular file
24		(
25			printf " |I- |I+ "
26
27			case "$fname" in
28				*.beancount)
29					printf '[fava $%%] :$ '
30					;;
31				*.md|*/guide)
32					printf "|fmt |Check"
33					;;
34				*.go)
35					printf "Lfmt Ldef Lrefs "
36					;;
37				*/go.mod)
38					printf "Lws+ "
39					;;
40				*.py)
41					printf "[Edit ,x/	/c/    /] "
42					;;
43				*/COMMIT_EDITMSG)
44					printf "|fmt "
45					;;
46			esac
47		) | 9p write acme/$winid/tag
48	fi
49done