> Ok, the wording on that site is a bit odd to me. The name plan9port is a > project Russ Cox wrote, so the wording > > A port of 9front's version of sam(1) to unix (plan9port) > > seemed to imply porting 9front's sam(1) to plan9port. That didn't make > sense to me since Russ's plan9port sam goes back many many years earlier > than the 2014 timestamp in that repo you pointed at.
Yes, and 9front's sam has some additional features (like chording) that are not found in p9p's sam. If I understand correctly, the author wanted to use those features, which is why he set out to replace the same that was already in p9p with this newer modification. sl
