[HN Gopher] Introduction to the Sam Text Editor
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       Introduction to the Sam Text Editor
        
       Author : naetius
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-12-24 20:09 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.matthewdmiller.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.matthewdmiller.net)
        
       | Gualdrapo wrote:
       | I learned about sam's structural regular expressions after
       | learning about vis[1] on a post in this website. It aims to
       | combine the modal text editing from vi(m) and sam's structural
       | regular expressions, plus some cool stuff like multiple cursors
       | or a Lua API.
       | 
       | I feel more comfortable with it than sam's given than I'm not as
       | much as a mouse person but a keyboard person (even though being a
       | graphic designer). It's development is not as heavy as is stuff
       | like neovim or kakoune, but still at this very moment I find it
       | usable, quick and reliable.
       | 
       | [1] https://github.com/martanne/vis
        
         | 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
         | tar xzf vis-0.7.tar.gz        cat vis-0.7/doc/requirements.txt
         | breathe
         | 
         | Interesting name choice. If I am not mistaken, BSD has had a
         | vis(1) utility since 1993.
         | 
         | http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/usr.bin/...
        
           | 0xdeadb00f wrote:
           | Correct. On OpenBSD, the vis editor's binary is actually
           | called `vise` to avoid this conflict.
        
       | 5- wrote:
       | another plan9+vi mashup in the opposite direction to vis:
       | 
       | http://c9x.me/edit/
        
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