From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Starting a blog on plan 9
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 08:16:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADSkJJXsBY1f7dVf_MWNTdPO5ebdtdYU8cdKoT24eYnEZqZahA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0cc5d7ea7f1e905bd7fefa5515869e1a@kw.quanstro.net>
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:09 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> Sam is enough for the new user, and learning it without the mouse
>> seems like a really good idea. I agree with you sam -d is not an entry
I think it's much easier to learn sam _with_ the mouse, and only then
move on to sam -d for times when just want the typescript window and
not to look at any of the files. "sam -d" is really not an editor for
beginners. For the kind of minor editing that you're explaining in
your blog post, I can't think of a single reason to reach for "sam -d"
instead of "ed", but it would be more common to start acme or plain
sam instead. It's not like Eclipse where you have to wait minutes for
the thing to start.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-09 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-08 9:34 IainWS
2012-05-08 10:19 ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-05-08 14:44 ` Tassilo Philipp
2012-05-08 14:51 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-05-08 15:55 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-05-08 16:15 ` John Floren
2012-05-08 20:23 ` Yaroslav
2012-05-09 8:49 ` IainWS
2012-05-09 8:49 ` IainWS
2012-05-09 18:49 ` steve
[not found] ` <4753aa01-47ee-4945-aa82-9da4691190c3@sm6g2000pbc.googlegroups.co>
2012-05-09 12:09 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-09 12:16 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2012-05-09 13:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-09 15:04 ` dexen deVries
2012-05-10 11:35 ` IainWS
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