From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay3.UU.NET ([192.48.96.8]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24105>; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:42:03 -0400 Received: from uucp2.UU.NET by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP id QQymhy08175; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:41:47 -0400 Received: from rexago8.UUCP by uucp2.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:41:48 -0400 Received: by summitis.com (smail2.5) id AA10980; 20 Apr 95 15:39:45 EDT (Thu) Received: from summitis.com by rserv1.summitis.com; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:38 EDT Received: from cheetah by rexsrvr2.summitis.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA11602; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:38:37 -0400 Received: by cheetah (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA19245; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:38:34 -0400 From: hc05@summitis.com Message-Id: <9504201938.AA19245@cheetah> Subject: sam pipes To: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Sam mailing list) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:41:51 -0400 Forwarded message: >Does anyone actually use sam's input pipe, apart from with >the B command? Generally, I've hardly used it at all, but I >was reading Rob's Acme paper the other day, and it mentioned >sam interacting with the compiler and debugger, and I thought, >why not? I've used it to add a menu to sam that contains some common command sequences I use, like shifting left, or running text through a spell checker. None of it is especially tricky, but it helps me keep my hands off of the keyboard. I basically get the pipe name and build a 9menu. I like your script. I'll have to get rc, or rewrite it in perl. Beirne -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beirne Konarski | Reading maketh a full man, conference a beirnek@summitis.com | ready man, and writing an exact man. "Untouched by Scandal" | -- Francis Bacon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------