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Occasional mtm user here. I'm in no way associated with the original author of mtm, but several of his other projects are worth pointing out as well. A nice foc

by marttt 4y ago

Occasional mtm user here. I'm in no way associated with the original author of mtm, but several of his other projects are worth pointing out as well. A nice focus on simplicity. An updated version of Plan 9's sam text editor for Unix: https://github.com/deadpixi/sam https://github.com/deadpixi/sam tine, a clone of AmigaDOS ED editor: https://github.com/deadpixi/tine https://github.com/deadpixi/tine libtmt, a tiny terminal emulation library (as I understand, this is the core of mtm as well): https://github.com/deadpixi/libtmt https://github.com/deadpixi/libtmt and the eregex regular expressions library: https://github.com/deadpixi/ergex https://github.com/deadpixi/ergex EDIT: Also worth noting is tty8, another tiny terminal multiplexer. All it does is provide 8 virtual terminals and have 3 keybindings for control: https://github.com/dimkr/tty8 https://github.com/dimkr/tty8

1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
Because I do not run "X11 of some sort" I am using the sam from plan9port with the -d option.
- marttt 4y ago
  Ha, same here, actually. There is an older stand-alone Unix port as well, though -- this is what I built and use (sam -d), because I don't need the entire p9p ecosystem. I actually use it with rlwrap to get line editing history: rlwrap -n sam -d $@ I really like sam's command language, it is mildly addictive. Apparently, a stand-alone Unix sam is also available in 9base: http://tools.suckless.org/9base http://tools.suckless.org/9base
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
    To get readline, I use socat instead of rlwrap. The later feels more sluggish. I learned about the sam port with the -d option from you, so thanks for that.
    - marttt 4y ago
      Yes, I remember testing socat as well for that purpose, and it worked great. Since I didn't have much other use for it at that point, I still went with rlwrap in the end. I imagine you can really do a lot with socat, though. An impressive tool. As for sam, the 9front version has a few additions (_ and ^) that make it quicker to manipulate the selected range with commands in sam's language that are stored in an external file [1]. Too bad this isn't included out of the box in the Unix versions. When one is using sam -d, this would give a more streamlined workflow for more complex editing tasks (no need to write external scripts in another language, sed, awk, etc). There was a 9front sam port for Unix somewhere as well, though, but I haven't tried to build it. 1: http://man.9front.org/1/sam http://man.9front.org/1/sam

by marttt 4y ago

1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago

Because I do not run "X11 of some sort" I am using the sam from plan9port with the -d option.

marttt 4y ago
Ha, same here, actually. There is an older stand-alone Unix port as well, though -- this is what I built and use (sam -d), because I don't need the entire p9p ecosystem. I actually use it with rlwrap to get line editing history: rlwrap -n sam -d $@ I really like sam's command language, it is mildly addictive. Apparently, a stand-alone Unix sam is also available in 9base: http://tools.suckless.org/9base http://tools.suckless.org/9base
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
  To get readline, I use socat instead of rlwrap. The later feels more sluggish. I learned about the sam port with the -d option from you, so thanks for that.
  - marttt 4y ago
    Yes, I remember testing socat as well for that purpose, and it worked great. Since I didn't have much other use for it at that point, I still went with rlwrap in the end. I imagine you can really do a lot with socat, though. An impressive tool. As for sam, the 9front version has a few additions (_ and ^) that make it quicker to manipulate the selected range with commands in sam's language that are stored in an external file [1]. Too bad this isn't included out of the box in the Unix versions. When one is using sam -d, this would give a more streamlined workflow for more complex editing tasks (no need to write external scripts in another language, sed, awk, etc). There was a 9front sam port for Unix somewhere as well, though, but I haven't tried to build it. 1: http://man.9front.org/1/sam http://man.9front.org/1/sam