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Sam (program)
Sam is a text editor under the Plan 9 operating system. There are Microsoft Windows and X Window System ports available. sam was originally designed by Rob Pike in the early 1980s for the DMD 5620 , Bell Labs' windowing terminal.
It aims to emulate the ed editor, but with extended capabilities, such as editing multiple files at once. It does this by opening a window dedicated to "watching" each file, and standard ed commands can be, in a sense, directed to the current file set.
Real editing power is offered by Plan 9's mouse chording capabilities, however this is available to any Plan 9 window, whether terminal or editor, not just sam.
External links
- The sam man page from Plan 9
- The text editor sam the original sam paper from November 1987
- The Unix version of sam
- The Win32 version of sam
- a new Unix version of sam
Last updated: 08-02-2005 00:32:31
09-23-2007 01:00:40
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