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Article #2544Re: Sam (was Re: sam and cursor control)
From: Neil Weisenfeld
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:03
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:03
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I agree with what both posters said. I find Sam ``neat'' and ``interesting'', but I found myself moving back to Vi after a short stint. Maybe something about Plan 9, like the window system 8 1/2 provides cursor control via the keyboard. I could see Sam being a real success under Unix if it had a few simple features added. Someone suggested a backquote operator (like under shells) that would insert the output of a command executed under a shell as the input to a Sam command. That and keyboard cursor movement would do it for me. Someone else suggested that they were able to feed commands to Sam from their shell under Unix, rc, but I haven't figured out how this would work. --Neil -- Neil I. Weisenfeld National Institutes of Health Computer Engineer Building 12A, Room 2033 weisen@alw.nih.gov Bethesda, MD 20892 uunet!nih-csl!weisen phone: (301) 402-2788
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nih-csl.dcrt.nih.gov!weisen From: weisen@alw.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld) Subject: Re: Sam (was Re: sam and cursor control) Message-ID: <1992Dec18.000313.11639@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Insts. of Health, DCRT, CSL X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <x#n2-nm@rpi.edu> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:03:13 GMT Lines: 20