From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] User Interface From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010814125559.826F319A3E@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:54:28 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: db3ebcca-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > The editors, sam and acme are virtually unusable. Many people disagree, even feel the opposite, that they are among the easiest-to-use editors around. > Why is it that such a simple task as editing the contents of a textfile > must cause so much pain? I don't hear many yelps where I work and essentially everyone uses either sam or acme. I suspect you don't know how to use them. A criticism I will accept is that there is inadequate documentation explaining how to use them well. Try reading the associated papers, rather than just the man pages. They help somewhat. -rob