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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9?
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sam -d is also very powerful, and might be worth learning even for
unix use, I'm totally ignorant about specialized editors for the
blind, but if I ever lost my sight, I think sam -d would be all I
would use.

(The tutorial on the sam language is most enlightening for everyone,
even lowly acme users like me:
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/ )

uriel

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>> 2) An option in rio to automatically open a new window
>> 3) A window switching program for rio (think alt+tab in Windows)
>
> For this particular case it's probably better to ditch rio completely and
> write something dedicated to the task at hand.
>
> As for editors, all you need is ed(1).  And believe me, it works. I've used
> it many times to "blind"ly edit config files over bodged up tty links.
>
> --lyndon
>
>