Re: [9fans] Emacs

[Blake McBride <blake@florida-software.com>]

I think one of main problems is that, in spite of the fact that I
have a quality video board, Plan 9 comes up in a low
resolution.  It's so low that if I open up an RC window and
do a man on a command the text partially wraps and is difficult
to read.  If I could fix that problem I'd feel a lot better.

Things I commonly use in emacs:

intelligent Keyboard macros
intelligent auto indent
repeat command n number of times
Undo
Query replace
Scroll one line at a time (up or down)
Put current line at top of screen
Narrow region
Don't wrap lines on display
Push, pop, and remember locations
Assign blocks of text to registers (cut and paste more than one block)
Be able to switch back and forth between two buffers without having to
select it each time
Save ALL modified buffers command
Find matching paren, brace, etc.
Abbreviations

Can sam or acme do these?  I think these are powerful capabilities.
Surely I can write whatever I want in ed but these features make my
life a lot easier and more productive.

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