From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] samuel From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:08:58 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 63476ea0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I'm impressed. We're in the middle of a religious war over editors and neither emacs nor vi is involved. As was pointed out earlier, it's trivial to use cscope-like tools quite naturally with acme. The same was not true of sam when samuel got written; now that sam has plumbing it might fit better, but it still pales in comparison to acme. For many acme users, the cscope-like tool of choice is grep, especially since cscope doesn't compile on Plan 9 (it's too tied to curses [sic]). If you really care, give acme+grep or acme+cscope a try before you knock it -- acme's great strength is how well it integrates external commands. AFAICT, rob is the only person who has tried both samuel and acme+grep and expressed an opinion. Thus far, consensus among the informed seems to be unanimous: acme+grep beats samuel.