Re: [9fans] first timer - editing plan9.ini

["J. R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Jul 19, 2009, at 22:29, Corey <corey@bitworthy.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 19 July 2009 19:12:50 Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>>> The few minutes spent learning ed(1) will be well repaid. You'll be
>>> one of the smartest guys on your block.
>>
>> i second that.  learning it has been one of the best investments of
>> my
>> time since 1982.
>>
>
> <grin>
>
> I would say the same thing about vi, which I practically live in,
> and feel
> hamstrung without.
>
> At anyrate, I do intend on sitting down and becoming at least
> comfortable
> with sam's ed.
>
> Though I'm guessing that I'll be installing Stefan's vim port asap -
> I'm
> _extremely_ happy that this exists.

It's sad to see people recommending acme instead of helping a bit with
Sam. You should try both, and use what fits you. I like Sam because it
is just an editor. Acme is more of a platform for making tools
interact, and to me ends up feeling like a swiss army chainsaw. I've
left vi behind because I learned Sam, and maybe you'll like it enough
to switch, too.

Until you get proficient in Sam, using the right-button menu will give
you the file-related commands you need, and / and s in the command
window will do until you learn the more powerful Sam commands and
idioms.

To get more proficient, I highly recommend Rob's paper 'A Tutorial For
The Sam Command Language' and the Sam reference card, which show you
the idioms for using Sam more effectively and give you a glimpse of
it's power. It helps if you read them more than once.

Good luck, I hope you find Sam or Acme to your liking :)

>
> http://vmsplice.net/9vim.html
>
>
> Cheers
>
>