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- From: night@acm.rpi.edu (Trip Martin)
- Subject: Re: Sam (was Re: sam and cursor control)
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- References: <1992Dec14.133826.7789@alw.nih.gov> <1gpj37INNj6t@nemesis.muppet.bt.co.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:12:10 GMT
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- In <1gpj37INNj6t@nemesis.muppet.bt.co.uk> carlj@muppet.bt.co.uk (Carl) writes:
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- >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
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- Trip Martin
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