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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Anyone use SAM?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.174818.27627@prl.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov9202641@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk> <721484846.9186@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:48:18 GMT
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- In article <721484846.9186@minster.york.ac.uk>, pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >
- > Before I started using Sam I was a dedicated vi addict -- I still use vi for
- > editing mail and so on, but for _writing_ on Unix boxes sam is the most
- > transparent tool I've ever come across.
- >
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- I use it with mail via a mechanism where you can get it to edit a file
- for you. I set EDITOR to that and my MH like mail user agent invokes it.
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- Elsewhere, when I need to edit something I go:
-
- ; B file
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- B co-operates with sam to hand it a B command with file as an absolute pathname.
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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- ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
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