Re: [9fans] Sam Rewrite (Was: SAM snarf with X)

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

> Alright, but I'm not sure I get it.  Can you give an example?
> I imagine Acme can boast a single, absolute UI policy
> only because it's a more general tool; sam(term) is just
> an editor, and so is always being used inside another
>  UI setting---even if it's rio.

Rio and sam are different window managers.
If you've used both I fail to understand how you wouldn't
notice -- automatically expanding windows, the menu for
switching windows, etc.  They're different.  I also know people
who run sam under "standard" window managers like
those that come with Gnome.  I'm sure they don't want
their sam windows to behave like the rest of gnome.

Like Erik posted, do you really want to turn 200 text editor
windows over to Gnome and expect it to do something sensible?

> Granted.  *Old* Athena/XTerm, then: set dot with button
> one click, scroll, extend dot with button three click.

I thought this behavior (which, I believe, originated with PARC's 3-button
mouse and was the reason that the Mac went for the simpler 1-button
mouse) had been long acknowledged as a mistake.
On the other hand if you can make scrolling selection work like
in rio, that's the right thing to do.

For what you want, though, you can use the k command to set
a mark and then move the cursor and run ',. (or .,') to select the
region.

Russ