From: "James A. Robinson" <jimr@highwire.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Musings on Interfaces
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:20:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPd04b77Q+xBy9XtbOwG-Hmu_gL4cr6kRYxGDktmSYGiKr+ejg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALAsyW00DugfoW+ZjS6ks8jM375Qjui8Y2QF=5p3_ODw_9gb=A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Mark van Atten <vanattenmark@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The one regret I have about sam is that it doesn't do scroll-select. I
> write papers rather than programs, and often want to select and
> quickly move around large chunks of text whose boundaries are usually
> not marked syntactically, even though I use LaTeX.
So you couldn't do something like clicking on the start and typing in a
.,/<pattern>/ where <pattern> holds the last few words of the text range
you wanted to select? I understand not having regular markup like a
program, but if a few words could be used to identify the end point I would
have assumed you could use that?
Jim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-01 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-01 14:42 Brantley Coile
2016-09-01 15:40 ` Bakul Shah
2016-09-01 16:05 ` Mark van Atten
2016-09-01 17:20 ` James A. Robinson [this message]
2016-09-01 19:10 ` Mark van Atten
2016-09-01 22:15 ` Travis Moore
2016-09-01 15:59 ` James A. Robinson
2016-09-01 16:36 ` Adriano Verardo
2016-09-01 17:54 ` Brantley Coile
2016-09-01 18:05 ` arnold
2016-09-01 22:56 ` Winston Kodogo
2016-09-02 1:52 ` Winston Kodogo
2016-09-02 9:06 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-09-02 14:19 ` Steven Stallion
2016-09-02 15:37 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-09-02 6:10 ` Mart Zirnask
2016-09-02 7:34 ` Steve Simon
2016-09-02 7:59 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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