Greetings! I've just discovered Sam, and I'm rather intensely impressed by it. It seems to be a really beautiful editor. I've got one question about it, which I can't find an answer to in the manuals. When you're typing text inside of the file window, is there any way to perform any cursor movement without using the mouse? It seems that the only options are to either reposition the cursor using the mouse, or mouse into the command window, and use a positioning command from there to shift. This is very cumbersome for routine editing tasks. <MC>
From: "Mark C. Carroll" <carroll@udel.edu> Subject: Newbie Question about Sam, and keyboard operations When you're typing text inside of the file window, is there any way to perform any cursor movement without using the mouse? It seems that the only options are to either reposition the cursor using the mouse, or mouse into the command window, and use a positioning command from there to shift. This is very cumbersome for routine editing tasks. yes, there is a way to perform cursor movement without using the mouse. use emacs.
>yes, there is a way to perform cursor movement without using the mouse.
>use emacs.
Ha ha, very funny.
It's intolerant sarcasm like this that makes labs religion so much fun,
eh?
From: byron@ghoti.netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis) Subject: Re: Newbie Question about Sam, and keyboard operations >yes, there is a way to perform cursor movement without using the mouse. >use emacs. Ha ha, very funny. It's intolerant sarcasm like this that makes labs religion so much fun, eh? i am afraid that the earlier correspondent has failed to see something very basic in the design of sam. if my chiding takes the form of sarcasm, that hardly amounts to intolerance.