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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Anyone use SAM?
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov9202641@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 20:26:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.145118.18810@alw.nih.gov> <OZ.92Nov6170912@ursa.sis.yorku.ca>
- Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca's message of 6 Nov 92 22:09:12 GMT
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- In article <OZ.92Nov6170912@ursa.sis.yorku.ca> oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
- Neil Weisenfeld writes:
- Is anyone using Sam? ...
-
- Yes, many of us picked it up from the toolchest sometime ago. Nice to see
- that it is now available to public at large.
-
- I don't want to start a war here, but why do people like Sam? I've
- tried it out and although I think the file as a stream (no newlines)
- is a good idea and the undo is excellent, I don't actually like using
- it. Specifically, the reliance on the mouse for almost all operations
- drives me nuts. Given that Pike thought long and hard about the
- design, I can only assume I'm one of the great unwashed who hasn't
- seen the light yet. So to speed me along would anybody care to
- explain why they think the interface is good?
-
- Email is fine if you have visions of a public debate degenerating into
- a flame war.
-
- bevan
-