From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <9A3455DB-8B65-46B3-9F57-6E98639392CB@me.com> From: "James A. Robinson" Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:20:39 -0700 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1140d2ae2ffc3e053b75714f Subject: Re: [9fans] Musings on Interfaces Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b0d5c32-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a1140d2ae2ffc3e053b75714f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Mark van Atten 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. =E2=80=8BSo you couldn't do something like clicking on the start and typing= in a .,// where 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 --001a1140d2ae2ffc3e053b75714f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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.

=E2=80=8BSo you couldn't do something like clicki= ng on the start and typing in a .,/<pattern>/ where <pattern> h= olds the last few words of the text range you wanted to select?=C2=A0 I und= erstand 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?<= /div>

Jim

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