On Thu, Sep 9, 2021, at 1:46 PM, revcomni...@gmail.com wrote:
> I came to this impression after reading:
> "Sam edits uninterpreted ASCII text."
> http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/

Understandable, but you missed the last paragraph of the abstract, which reads, 
"This paper is reprinted from Software—Practice and Experience, Vol 17, number 
11, pp. 813-845, November 1987. The paper has not been updated for the Plan 9 
manuals. Although Sam has not changed much since the paper was written, the 
system around it certainly has. Nonetheless, the description here still stands 
as the best introduction to the editor." (You're not the only one to miss 
things like this, I do it all the time.)

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