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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Starting a blog on plan 9
Date: Wed,  9 May 2012 08:09:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0cc5d7ea7f1e905bd7fefa5515869e1a@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4753aa01-47ee-4945-aa82-9da4691190c3@sm6g2000pbc.googlegroups.co>

> Out of the two editors available I would really opt for using Acme

there are three (ed).

> instead. If you happen to find yourself newly installing plan 9 then
> someone might suggest Sam to use and you will be stuck trying to learn
> everything about Sam before you can start. Learning only the basics of
> Sam is enough for the new user, and learning it without the mouse
> seems like a really good idea. I agree with you sam -d is not an entry
> level choice, Acme is best for this. In my next post I showed how to

using sam without the mouse to edit a file without -d is not possible.  even
sticking to ed-style commands in the command window, the mouse
is needed to select a frame to display the edited file in.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-09 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-08  9:34 IainWS
2012-05-08 10:19 ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-05-08 14:44 ` Tassilo Philipp
2012-05-08 14:51 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-05-08 15:55 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-05-08 16:15 ` John Floren
2012-05-08 20:23   ` Yaroslav
2012-05-09  8:49 ` IainWS
2012-05-09  8:49 ` IainWS
2012-05-09 18:49   ` steve
     [not found] ` <4753aa01-47ee-4945-aa82-9da4691190c3@sm6g2000pbc.googlegroups.co>
2012-05-09 12:09   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-05-09 12:16     ` Russ Cox
2012-05-09 13:27       ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-09 15:04         ` dexen deVries
2012-05-10 11:35 ` IainWS

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