in support of sam, i use it and always have, i never got to the point with acme that it felt worth the effort of changing.
sam is not an an introductory editor, its an alternative. the one place where i do use acme is the wiki, there is no sam wiki interface... unless you know different? On 9 May 2012, at 08:49 AM, IainWS <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 9, 6:23 am, [email protected] (Yaroslav) wrote: >>> Could you elaborate on your choice of using "sam -d"? >> >> Agree, 'sam -d' is not an entry-level choice. > > Out of the two editors available I would really opt for using Acme > instead. If you happen to find yourself newly installing plan 9 then > someone might suggest Sam to use and you will be stuck trying to learn > everything about Sam before you can start. Learning only the basics of > Sam is enough for the new user, and learning it without the mouse > seems like a really good idea. I agree with you sam -d is not an entry > level choice, Acme is best for this. In my next post I showed how to > write hello world in Sam and then suggest Acme for editing files from > there on.
