Re: [9fans] Starting a blog on plan 9

[steve <steve@quintile.net>]

in support of sam, i use it and always have, i never
got to the point with acme that it felt worth the effort of changing.

sam is not an an introductory editor, its an alternative.

the one place where i do use acme is the wiki, there is no sam
wiki interface... unless you know different?

On 9 May 2012, at 08:49 AM, IainWS <iainws@gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 9, 6:23 am, yari...@gmail.com (Yaroslav) wrote:
>>> Could you elaborate on your choice of using "sam -d"?
>>
>> Agree, 'sam -d' is not an entry-level choice.
>
> Out of the two editors available I would really opt for using Acme
> instead. If you happen to find yourself newly installing plan 9 then
> someone might suggest Sam to use and you will be stuck trying to learn
> everything about Sam before you can start. Learning only the basics of
> 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
> level choice, Acme is best for this. In my next post I showed how to
> write hello world in Sam and then suggest Acme for editing files from
> there on.