> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 3:01 PM Mart Zirnask <martzirn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > If I manage to build the command line mode of Rob Pike's sam editor > > [1] for DOS, I could probably do a writeup on how to use it. Because > > of the so-called structural regular expressions [2, 3], it is a really > > interesting editor. Excellent for processing arbitrary strings that > > spawn across multiple lines, since sam doesn't expect the input to be > > full, terminated lines.
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 4:30 PM Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've heard of it but never used it. It's very interesting. Plan9's > successor to Ed, right? (Grep and Sed both came from Ed. Even AWK took > the regex code from Egrep, I think.) Brian Kernighan uses SAM, and I've interviewed Brian a few times. Brian describes SAM as "ed" or "vi" on steroids. And that's how the SAM website describes it, so I guess that's not a surprise. SAM is a window-based editor, so it uses graphics mode. To me, this looks a lot like the window editor on the Apollo/DOMAIN system - I managed a small Apollo/DOMAIN network in the mid 1990s. You can find a screenshot of SAM on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28text_editor%29#/media/File:Sam_text_editor.png Compiling this for DOS would be an interesting exercise. Not sure if it's possible, but give it a shot and let us know. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
