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

[IainWS <iainws@gmail.com>]

On May 10, 4:49 am, st...@quintile.net (steve) wrote:
> 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.
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> sam is not an an introductory editor, its an alternative.
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> the one place where i do use acme is the wiki, there is no sam
> wiki interface... unless you know different?
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> On 9 May 2012, at 08:49 AM, IainWS <iai...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On May 9, 6:23 am, yari...@gmail.com (Yaroslav) wrote:
> >>> Could you elaborate on your choice of using "sam -d"?
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> >> Agree, 'sam -d' is not an entry-level choice.
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> > 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.

No I haven't managed to explore as far as editing the wiki!