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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam Rewrite (Was: SAM snarf with X)
Date: Sat,  8 Oct 2005 16:17:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f542be0a2004c8871dc43eb299901e6@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4347bf3c.jG0d8omwXYyqNEYo%yard-ape@telus.net>

Click to type is a concept that starts religious wars.
Howver rio (and 8½) are use it, to change sam
would mean plan9 would have mixture of modalaties.
Changing X sam only would mean switching between Unix
and sam would become painfull.

A mouse chording cut and paste interface exists, I saved
the details in /n/sources/contrib/steve/doc/sam-chord-patch.txt
Russ reworked this for p9p but discovered deep problems as I
rembember, the archives have the detail.

Configurable mouse - well, it wouldn't be my choice.

Unshared mouse buffer - well this is an artifact of history
but I for one am so used to it I find it strange when I use
Acme to find its not there.

Select whilst scrolling - I don't know this one.

A breakaway, more X11 style of sam was produced in 1993
odd. I don't know how bit-rotted it would be, but the code
probably exists somwhere in:
ftp://ftp.sys.utoronto.ca/pub/sam/sam-fans-list/

-Steve


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-08 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-08 12:44 yard-ape
2005-10-08 13:01 ` Uriel
2005-10-08 15:17 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2005-10-08 15:45 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-08 15:51   ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-08 17:46   ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-09  0:11     ` Russ Cox
2005-10-08 18:02   ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-09  9:50 yard-ape
2005-10-09  9:53 yard-ape
2005-10-09 15:41 ` Russ Cox

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