[9fans] Sam & Acme & 8c questions

[Blake McBride <blake@integra-online.com>]

Okay, I'm getting into this.  I used sam for a while and
got used to it but going in and out was a pain - enter acme.
Anyway, I have some questions and comments.

Comment:  If you start sam with a single file argument it
would be VERY convinient to have sam automatically
open and display that file taking up its entire data area.
This would make quick edits a lot easier.  You could just
type sam file.c and just start editing it.  Calling sam, selecting
the single file, specifing the window size each time is a real
pain.  Perhaps if more than one file is specified it should
just auto-display the first and allow manual selection of the
other files.  Perhaps this should be done with a command
line optional argument (although I don't think so).

Question 1.  In sam (or acme) how can I select more lines
than can fit on the screen?  For example let's say I'm editing
a file with 1000 lines and 40 are being displayed (because
that is all that will fit).  Let's say I want to snarf an 80 line
function.  How can I do that?

Question 2:  If I start a new copy of acme it isn't defaulting
an rc shell window like it is when the system boots.  This is
fine, but how do I start one?

Question 3:  Most C compilers (or actually their pre-processors)
have some standard defines so that your program can tell what
it's being compiled for at compile time (like _unix_ or __WIN32).
Does the Plan 9 compiler have some standard defines?

Thanks a lot.

Blake McBride
blake@intega-online.com