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Re: Anyone use SAM?

#2645
From: Robert Starr
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:13
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In article <1992Nov22.194309.17333@prl.dec.com>, boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
|> 
|> Sam does brace matching with a double click on button 1:
|> 
|>      Button 1 changes selection.  Pointing to a non-current window with but-
|>      ton 1 makes it current; within the current window, button 1 selects
|>      text, thus setting dot.  Double-clicking selects text to the boundaries
|>      of words, lines, quoted strings or bracketed strings, depending on the
|>      text at the click.

Thanks.

|> 
|> It lets your left hand do auto indent.  Just how hard is it to type tab?

And just how hard is it to do autoindent?  If I remember right, you can even
get this feature on regular typewriters.

I don't want Emacs, but ai seems so very fundamental.  Of course, Emacs
fans think a fundamental editor requires everything else ever invented
as well :-).

|> Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

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| Bob Starr (starr@wg2.waii.com) | Western Geophysical | Opinions R mine! |
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From: rfs@se28.wg2.waii.com (Robert Starr)
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