From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:26:49 -0400
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: sam hint
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>>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.