Re: [9fans] sam hacking - a couple of fixes that may apply t

[Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:06:04PM +0100, steve.simon@snellwilcox.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As one of (I suspect) a dieing breed of intensive sam users
> I like send appending \n.
>
> I believe it's a matter of outlook. If you regard sam's command window
> as a typescript then you tend to assemble a command at the
> output/input point which requires many laborious cut and pastes.
>
> I can imagine not having to move the mouse before doing the paste would
> then seem very attrictive.
>
> If however, the history in the sam window is just text then one is
> quite within ones rights to 'change history', edit it, double click
> to the right of it (to select it) and hit send.
>
> I do this dozens of times a day.

Hmm - I get it.  Please take into account this is my first serious
attempt to use the editor (and the UI) since I forst read the paper
in '87.

I see how you're using it,  and I agree it's behaviour makes sense
in that context.  What I was using it for was pasting dot from an
editor window into the command window - without trashing the snarf
buffer.

In a similar vein,  what sort of things do people use the ESC key
behaviour for?  I'd guess it's intended for use with 'look' but has
the side effect of chucking extra text into the editor window.  Or
is one expected to play games bouncing back to the sam window,  undo,
then some search (either regex in sam window,  or look back in editor
window).

Anyway,  I guess I should have a bit more of a play before I hack too
much :-)

The other hack I'm playing around with is the arrow keys - I keep on
hitting them and getting confused.  So I've made left/right dead keys,
and (if I can figure it easily) will make up/down scroll one line,
else they'll become dead keys as well.

DF