Click to type is a concept that starts religious wars. Howver rio (and 8½) are use it, to change sam would mean plan9 would have mixture of modalaties. Changing X sam only would mean switching between Unix and sam would become painfull.
A mouse chording cut and paste interface exists, I saved the details in /n/sources/contrib/steve/doc/sam-chord-patch.txt Russ reworked this for p9p but discovered deep problems as I rembember, the archives have the detail. Configurable mouse - well, it wouldn't be my choice. Unshared mouse buffer - well this is an artifact of history but I for one am so used to it I find it strange when I use Acme to find its not there. Select whilst scrolling - I don't know this one. A breakaway, more X11 style of sam was produced in 1993 odd. I don't know how bit-rotted it would be, but the code probably exists somwhere in: ftp://ftp.sys.utoronto.ca/pub/sam/sam-fans-list/ -Steve
