From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <7e93404c-01f6-419a-9f1a-9aee147d4772@iu9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> <4753aa01-47ee-4945-aa82-9da4691190c3@sm6g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> From: steve Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4753aa01-47ee-4945-aa82-9da4691190c3@sm6g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> Message-Id: Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 19:49:58 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] Starting a blog on plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 87023bc4-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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.