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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:36:52 -0400
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p: SAM snarf with X
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> would it be utter sacrilege and or a complete waste of time
> to add some acme features to samterm like:
>=20
> 1. sharing the snarf buffer with the window system.
> 2. cording
>=20
> i've been thinking about this for a while, but haven't gotten
> to it.

the two-half structure of sam (+samterm) makes these
interesting, but i think both are possible.  to do the snarf
thing i think you could just change samterm (it knows enough
to know when something has just been cut or is about to be
pasted). =20

to add chording (presumably cording has something to
do with processing /sys/log), there is some code that is
marked with if(chording) in the plan9port version of samterm,
but rob got it to hang so i disabled it.  rob said that his earlier
attempts had locking problems too.  i stared at the code for
a while and couldn't figure out what could be wrong (i started
with steve's code and tweaked it a little) and gave up.  i use
acme anyway.  the problem is that the races are hard to=20
tickle but really frustrating when you hit one while editing
something important.

> maybe the answer is "use acme, then". but often i want sam.
> it's a lot easier to do some complicated, scripted editing
> with sam than anything else. i like having a terminal-like
> window for editing.

i just open sam when i have a collection of files to do
a lot of regexp work with.  even if acme had what you
ask for above, the ~~sam~~ window is missing.

> btw, this command with acme
>=20
>      x:0x....: |tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'
>=20
> gave me "addresses out of order". sam was happy with it.
> the text i had selected was like this:
>=20
>      {0x00AA, 0x00AA, "whatever",},
>      {0x00BB, 0x00BB, "whatever2",},

this is probably a real bug.

russ