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Article #2538Sam (was Re: sam and cursor control)
From: Carl
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:00
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:00
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In article 7789@alw.nih.gov, weisen@alw.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld) writes: +Bret Giddings (bret@muppet.bt.co.uk) wrote: +: +: Is there anyone out there who knows whether sam supports cursor control (and maybe +: page-up etc). Seems kinda unusable without. +: +: Bret + +Yes, an editor in which you have no control over the cursor would be +bad :-). Actually, if you are referring to controlling cursor movement +from the keyboard, then I think the answer is no: you have to use the +mouse. + From the documents that come with sam, it suggests that its the editor of choice in the plan9 team. Something I find difficult to believe if its being used to write code in. I tried using it for a while and gave up as its just too slow to use, I have to keep taking my hands off of the keyboard to move around the file and it doesnt seem to have tags. Is this an old version of sam thats missing functionality? Anyone out there using it in anger? Opinions/comments/views? Cheers, Carl "Militant VI user" Johnson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!axion!muppet!nemesis!mugwump!carlj From: carlj@muppet.bt.co.uk (Carl) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Sam (was Re: sam and cursor control) Message-ID: <1gpj37INNj6t@nemesis.muppet.bt.co.uk> Date: 17 Dec 92 10:00:07 GMT References: <1992Dec14.133826.7789@alw.nih.gov> Reply-To: carlj@muppet.bt.co.uk Organization: British Telecom Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: mugwump.muppet.bt.co.uk