From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:35:38 +0000 From: IainWS Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <7e93404c-01f6-419a-9f1a-9aee147d4772@iu9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Starting a blog on plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 87766e72-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On May 10, 4:49=A0am, 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. > > 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. No I haven't managed to explore as far as editing the wiki!