From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <002701c341ce$35f939e0$d2944251@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <200307031830.OAA05117@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: [9fans] sam hacking - a couple of fixes that may apply t MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 03:47:21 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e7e835ee-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > But by double-clicking to the right of the text you pick up the entire > line, plus terminating new-line, right? you're assuming the command fits on one line. some of the stuff i construct in the command window is multi line, hence send is really useful. it is also consistant with the window manager. i don't like acme. it has some interesting ideas, but i can't use it. rob wrote in one of the sam papers (iirc) that most people don't use complex sam commands. i used to be like that, until i learnt the error of my ways, so now i construct fairly complex stuff and refine it till it's right. having 'perfect' undo means i can make a wild guess, try it, undo it if it's wrong, and loop until i have something that smashes multiple files into the shape i want them.