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- From: weisen@alw.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld)
- Subject: Re: Sam (was Re: sam and cursor control)
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:03:13 GMT
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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.
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- --Neil
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