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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Ozan Yigit <oz@tiger.cs.yorku.ca>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sam vs acme
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:44:20 +0000
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boyd@fr.inter.net (Boyd Roberts) writes:

> vi's 'undo' was always broken.  with sam's, which is dead easy to
> implement once you've made the crucial insight, makes using 'x'
> worry free.  you start with a first cut, try it and then use 'u'
> and stepwise refinement until you've persuaded the file(s) to
> come 'round to your way of thinking.

sam's undo is broken on the terminal side; it never shows you
where it is undoing. this is not hard to fix, as i have done once
in the past, but those changes now lost. perhaps someone will fix
it on the common version.