From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] sam command language Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Rob Pike To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20031006163511.GB16159@epaphras.cnm-vra.com> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:41:26 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 625d681c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 consistency with ed's regexes was paramount when sam was written. it may be less so now. i was trying to build an editor that treated the whole file as one string yet didn't offer too many surprises when used by someone accustomed to ed. i think it worked out well. -rob