18 Jul
2025
18 Jul
'25
5:07 a.m.
I often think about the old ad from Symbolics touting EMACS's "over 400
easy to use commands."
-ro
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
I always recoiled from vi's plethora of commands.
Then came sam, and I
haven't looked back since. It handles multiple windows with barely
more commands than ed, real regular expressions, good mouse support,
and great global editing capability. It can even run by script without
a screen.
Doug