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acmerc

I'm using this script to spawn acme on OpenBSD in all its glory!

#!/usr/bin/env rc

. $home/lib/profile

if (~ $PLAN9 '') {
	echo '$PLAN9 is not defined!'
	exit 1
}

Provide a sane environment for acme

SHELL=rc
PAGER=nobs
MANPAGER=nobs
EDITOR=editinacme
VISUAL=editinacme

Most of the utilities from plan9ports binds sockets in NAMESPACE, which is /tmp/ns.$USER.$DISPLAY by default. I'd like to have different namespaces per acme session, so I'm defining the env variable.

Yes, using $pid ($ in bourne shell) is discouraged to generate "random" values, but here it's done on purpose: every program spawned inside *this* terminal will share the same namespace.

NAMESPACE=/tmp/ns.$user.$pid
mkdir -p $"NAMESPACE

Start the plumber and fontsrv

plumber
fontsrv &
fontsrvpid=$apid

I've used Go Mono for a while, but I'm falling in love with bitmaps fonts these days

font=/usr/local/plan9/font/fixed/unicode.7x14.font
# font=/mnt/font/GoMono/10a/font
FONT=/mnt/font/InputSans-Regular/10a/font

Start acme for real

$PLAN9/bin/acme -a -f $font -F $FONT $* &
acmepid=$apid

wait a bit for acme to set up its things and start autoacme

{
	sleep 1
	winid=1
	exec acmeeval 'autoacme '$home'/bin/acmeconfig'
} &
acmeevalpid=$apid

Then wait for acme to terminate

wait $acmepid

and stop acmeeval (just in case) and fontsrv

kill $acmeevalpid
kill $fontsrvpid

wait a little bit more

wait # just in case

and then kill the namespace before quitting

rm -rf $"NAMESPACE