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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [9fans] samuel (fwd)
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Fri,  1 Mar 2002 01:20:32 -0500
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> What do you say rob, could you suggest how? ;)

I don't remember exactly what samuel did, and I'm not much of a fan of
syntax-directed editing anyway.  Text is text.  C is text.  Sam is a
text editor.  Voilà.

Sam's `understanding' of C as plain text has never felt like a
limitation to me.  Sometimes I run grep in another window to figure
something out.  Use grep -n in *.[ch] and plumb the result and you're
probably 90% of the way to samuel.

Semantics-directed editing, now that might be something special.

-rob