On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, at 7:54 PM, Silas McCroskey wrote:
> > In any case, Plan 9's ed has a nice "browse" command which sam can't match.
> > I used to issue "0bn", then just "b" once per page. Or, if you don't want
> > line numbers, leave out the "n".
>
> "+,+20p" does it. Doesn't work near the
On Sat, Jul 3, 2021, at 3:29 AM, umbrati...@prosimetrum.com wrote:
> nothing's tying you to sam syntax:
>
> ,|awk '{print NR "\t" $0}'
>
> then undo.
Good points. I used to pipe through other tools often, and very often used to
make temporary changes and undo them. Can't remember specific uses
Thanks folks for all the suggestions and pointers. Now it's just a
small matter of putting it all into practice ;-)
Dworkin
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On 2 Jul 2021, at 19:06, Ethan Gardener
mailto:eeke...@fastmail.fm>> wrote:
This reminds me why I switched to Forth: I can program my editor properly
Could you expand on this point?
Vaguely aware of Forth, but no experience with forth editors
Silas
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On Sat, 03 Jul 2021 22:33:07 +0100, "Ethan Gardener"
wrote:
eekee57> To be honest, it helps that the editor's source code is only
eekee57> about 2.5KB. ;)
So you're using the Forth environment as your editor, not just using
Forth to drive sam or acme?
Dworkin
On Sat, Jul 3, 2021, at 5:32 PM, silas poulson wrote:
>> On 2 Jul 2021, at 19:06, Ethan Gardener wrote:
>>
>> This reminds me why I switched to Forth: I can program my editor properly
>
> Could you expand on this point?
>
> Vaguely aware of Forth, but no experience with forth editors
Sure.