7 Jan
2020
7 Jan
'20
3:43 p.m.
7 Jan 2020 02:32:11 Doug McIlroy :
Sam was the first screen editor that I deemed
worthwhile, and I
still use it today.
I would like to experiment with Sam and run it on various *nix operating systems. There
seems to be many ports.
Do I need to install some kind of Plan 9 emulation layer (in user space), which Sam builds
and runs on? Obviously I'm referring to Russ Cox's libraries and user space
tools.
Is it necessary to have a p9 environment to gain the most advantage of a tool like Sam?
Or, is it possible for it still to function well as a transplant in a new environment such
as *nix?
In that second case, what are the well ported versions of Sam that build and run directly
on the target environment?
Andrew