From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ec2e3c33c26f69a1ac8fa3c807997f4@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:37:31 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] command repetition in sam/acme Topicbox-Message-UUID: b0a3ce14-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > The result of this discussion basically has been: neither acme nor sam > is suited for the original problem, there is no simple way present in > plan9 allowing you to edit such files with long lines, which are quite > commonly and with justification present in the world. Only Vim, which > was ported to plan9, with its regexps, can do it gracefully. Thus if > you want to edit a file, you are forced to use bloated regexps present > in Vim. Isn't it sad being in plan9?! Things should be simple, but not > simpler than that. i disagree with your premise that only vim has the vigor to modify your super special file. all you need is f and f*. f transforms your source into something easy to edit in acme. f* transforms it back into the original form. easy peasy. or, you can write a simple program that edits the file directly. there are so many ways to do this, and i'm just too lazy to list them all. - erik