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Re: Sam (was Re: sam and cursor control)

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From: Trip Martin
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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