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What's sam?
by prakash 17y ago
What's sam?
- ax0n 17y agoIt's a text editor that I first used on plan9. I tried it out in the 90s, and I didn't "get it" back then, but I kind of liked Sam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28text_editor%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28text_editor%29 I'm a self-described operating system junkie. At home, I've got WinXP, Win7, OpenBSD, OS X, Haiku (BeOS), FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, and a few Linux flavors running. Yes, all at once. Maybe I should try plan9 again in a VM.
- acegopher 17y agoWhich do find yourself using the most often?
- ax0n 17y agoCurrently, my most powerful machine is my MacBook, which dual-boots OS X and Windows 7 natively. I probably use them about the same. I run a lot of things in VirtualBox, though. I almost always have an OpenBSD VM up and running, for example. My two lower-powered desktops are running Solaris 10 (Sparc) and Ubuntu Karmic for the time being, but Ubuntu is kind of in the dog house right now. I've had good luck with ArchLinux in a VM, so I may throw that on there soon.
- pmarin 17y agoIt is like ed(1) with a windowing system.
- eru 17y agoThe standard editor!
- joshu 17y agoI want a editor! Not a samitor or an emacsitor or a viditor!
- cylinder714 17y agoThose aren't even words.
- gchpaco 17y agoThis is superficially true but I think ignores how usable sam is. The rationalized command language, the fact that you can see what you're doing, unlimited undo even across files (even across file I/O), and the ability to go to the file in question and just type make it a much more satisfying experience to do large amounts of development with than ed is.
- eru 17y agoYes. Vi is also not too dissimilar to ed, but much more useful. (Also NetHack is quite similar to Vi, and much more useful and fun in turn.)