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Article #2541Re: Sam (was Re: sam and cursor control)
From: Trip Martin
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:12
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:12
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In <1gpj37INNj6t@nemesis.muppet.bt.co.uk> carlj@muppet.bt.co.uk (Carl) writes: >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? I've seen several comments to the effect that sam loses some of its flavor when run in a non-plan9 environment. Not being familiar with plan9, I don't know how plan9 affects using sam. Personally, being a touch-typist vi-user who hates to move his hands while editing (even for function keys), I doubt plan9 would make sam any nicer to use, at least for me. I do keep sam around because the dataflow command set sam uses looks quite nice. >Cheers, >Carl "Militant VI user" Johnson -- Trip Martin night@acm.rpi.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!night From: night@acm.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) Subject: Re: Sam (was Re: sam and cursor control) Message-ID: <x#n2-nm@rpi.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: hermes.acm.rpi.edu Reply-To: night@acm.rpi.edu References: <1992Dec14.133826.7789@alw.nih.gov> <1gpj37INNj6t@nemesis.muppet.bt.co.uk> Distribution: na Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:12:10 GMT Lines: 24