rob replied with the following, and asked me to forward it.
steve
> From rob@plan9.research.att.com Fri Mar 17 14:21 GMT 1995
> From: rob@plan9.research.att.com
> To: Steve_Kilbane@cegelecproj.co.uk
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 09:14:41 EST
> Subject: Re: Subject: fixed bug?
>
> when you type a command, it must be to an open file, but not an open window.
> i tried what you said and it made no attempt to open a window on the file.
> it did, however, load it in. is that a bug? maybe. but not the one you think.
> sam needs just *some* file to talk to; give it one, and
> D file
> will just delete that file. the problem you're having is that sam is grabbing
> the first file on your list when you type that command because it wants some
> file to be attached to the command (that is very hard to fix, i think); it just
> happened to be a big ugly one in your case. find another file first, or make
> one with "new", and things will behave well.
>
> there's talk of mapping acme's buffer management stuff into sam, which
> will make sam much faster at loading files.
>