[9fans] Current sam regular expression engine

2009-09-09 Thread plus 852
The sam paper notes that the regular expression code used by sam is an implementation of Thompson's NFA algorithm. Is this still the case, or has the engine been replaced with another one?

[9fans] Compiling plan9port under Mac OS X 10.6

2009-09-03 Thread plus 852
Has anyone had success with compiling plan9port under Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)? I've submitted an issue report at http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/issue/27/compiling-under-snow-leopard that provides the error messages I received. I then tried adding CC9=gcc -m32 to a $PLAN9/LOCAL.config file, bu

[9fans] sam as editor for mutt/pine

2009-08-03 Thread plus 852
Is it possible to use sam as an external editor for the mail programs mutt or pine? If so, is anyone doing this? What does one add to a mutt or pine config file to get this working?