From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) From: Lyndon Nerenberg In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:46:37 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20120420213934.1v2ed14r3r0kc80c@courrier.univ-paris1.fr> <305C962A-7E92-484E-94ED-4E499A1CC3CB@orthanc.ca> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] git and (p9p) acme Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7f3e65b6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2012-04-25, at 1:36 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > What is not obvious about what 'sam file' does? Plugging 'sam file' into a script does not launch the editor with the = specified file in a window for the user to edit, and then save out. People are clamouring for a (visual) 'ed foo' replacement. Acme can't = do that. Sam can, but it needs some unintuitive arguments. If 'E foo' = wrapped sam up in the proper glue to make it fake out 'vi foo' as far as = the atomic editing from the command line needs that started this thread, = that would be wonderful. That aside, I think rio+acme provides enough glue to make it possible to = have an 'E' script that launches an acme window and blocks until the = window is closed. If I have time over the weekend I'll fiddle about and = see what comes out.=