Re: [9fans] page as a presentation tool

[John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>]

> > I should say I am using whatever version is in the ports tree
> > on FreeBSD.  Maybe there is a better version.  I have noticed
> > two ways in which it differs.  One is that undo doesn't
> > restore the dot.  This is pretty annoying since I like to
> > use succesive refinement to select text and I make a lot of
> > mistakes.  The other is the 'x' doesn't work quite as
> > advertised in the paper.  The relevant passage is...

>
> The one at http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rsc/software/plan9
> builds from the current Plan 9 sources, which are really
> not very far from the Unix ones.  Undo definitely does
> restore dot, though I wish samterm scrolled so you could
> see it.  And x seems to work, though I can't imagine why
> it would be too different from the Unix one.
>
> Russ
>

Thanks.  That solves the problem with 'u'.  The problem with 'x',
I fear, is my own misunderstanding of sam's syntax.  sam doesn't
allow a space between 'x' and its regular expression argument, though
it is quite happy to allow one between 'c' and its regular expression
argument.  Since this first bit me on the UNIX version I assumed it
was a problem with the UNIX version.

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John Stalker
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