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- From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
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- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Message-ID: <714828990.22356@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 11:36:30 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- Tim.Goodwin (tlg@uknet.ac.uk) wrote:
- :
- : If you had 8 1/2, you'd have sam, so you wouldn't want to be messin'
- : around with vi.
-
- I think sam is available to anyone with an AT&T source licence. (ok, that's
- perhaps not everyone!). We've certainly got sam on our Suns, with
- samterms (the windowing/mouse/cut&paste front end) for X and mux.
-
- An excellent text editor indeed -- sam concentrates on _getting the job
- done_ rather than piddling about with customisation and fancy/useless
- macros.
-
- Even as a straightforward ed replacement (i.e. running on a glass tty)
- the command language is many times more powerful and does wonderful things
- -- regular expressions across multiple files? No problem!
-
- The combination of windows and command language makes it, IMHO, utterly unbeatable
- as far as Unix editors go.
-
- Unfortunately the trend in editors seems to be towards unnecessary
- bulk. Sam does everything I need in a total of 53k for the editor and
- 110k for the front end. Stick that in gnuemacs's pipe and smoke it :-)
-
- Pete
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- *Peter Fenelon -- Research Associate -- Software Safety Assessment Procedures*
- Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y01 5DD (+44/0)904 433388
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