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From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: sam hint
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:26:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950926132649.iHVcZFnfPDwcYSSiYifrA2enAVnUUkgf2MsdkDtH1bE@z> (raw)

>>BTW:- why doesn't sam clean its window up properly on exit, acme and mothra
>>      do so, it was like this in the previous release too - i would have
>>     thought it would have been tidied up by now.

that reminds me: new plan 9 users
might not be aware of the following way to use sam.
it works on plan 9 but also on some unix systems.

in my window system startup file,
i typically create one window of significant size in which i run sam.
that remains on screen until i log out (subject to `Hide' in 8½ or 9wm).
as i wander about the system in other windows, i use the B command (see sam(1))
to throw files into it for editing.

on slow terminals, the single sam instance can be invoked as sam -r $cpu.
using this method, you are also rarely bothered by windows containing
the remnants of an instance of sam.







             reply	other threads:[~1995-09-26 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-09-26 13:26 forsyth [this message]
1995-09-27 15:06 mkc
1995-09-27 15:29 presotto
1995-09-27 16:26 forsyth

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