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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Anyone use SAM?
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov13115635@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 11:56:35 GMT
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov9202641@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk> <721484846.9186@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: pete@minster.york.ac.uk's message of 11 Nov 92 12:27:29 GMT
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- In article <721484846.9186@minster.york.ac.uk> pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
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- I (bevan@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
- [ asking why people like sam ]
-
- (1) It's small
- (2) It's fast
- (3) It has an orthogonal command structure
- (4) It does what I want it to do, without the need for me to write
- a pile of silly macros or Lisp functions.
-
- I agree with the first three. The fourth point is one of the problems
- I have with it: in a couple of cases it doesn't do what I want, and
- there is no simple way to extend it. A prime example is knowing
- something about the indentation of languages. I write a fair amount
- of Scheme and I find it tough going in sam. Maybe I've been spoilt by
- previous editors or maybe it is part of Pike's philosophy that the
- editor should not help with indentation ... etc.
-
- bevan
-