On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Wolf Tivy <wti...@my.bcit.ca> wrote: > I find it useful to be able to edit files using my regular editor > after I break X, or if I don't feel like starting it up. > I like curses stuff even in X because it is nice to open up an editor > and have it tempoarily reuse the terminal window without spawning > another and thrashing my layout. Furthermore, as a bit of an > aesthetic concern, curses editors inherit the color configuration of > the terminal, which is convienient if you are into making things look > nice. > > It was suggested before that a curses interface would be a good > idea, so I am assuming that I am not the only person who would > appreciate it. > > I might be happy with the p9p samterm, but I can't figure out how > to get it standalone from the rest of p9p, or what kind of
Sam has run on lunix since long before p9p existed. apt-get install sam should work, it is a somewhat old version of sam, but all the functionality should be there. > aesthetic variations are possible (font?, color?). These issues are > not that big on thier own, but combined with the whole X-dependant > thing, it just doesn't seem worth it. > > So that's my view on why a curses samterm is a good idea. > If noone is interested, I will survive with nano, but if people are > interested or if someone has started, I'm willing to throw some > time at it. Anyone that considers for even one second to use nano should be taken out and shot on the spot. uriel > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joseph Xu <joseph...@gmail.com> > Date: Monday, August 2, 2010 5:30 pm > Subject: Re: [dev] curses samterm > To: dev@suckless.org > >> Under what circumstance would you not be able to run sam's gui >> and have >> to resort to a curses interface? sam already provides a way to >> connect >> the gui to a remote host via ssh to edit files over a slow >> connection. >> I've even done this with an old Windows port of sam running >> locally and >> a remote linux host with p9p sam. So the only reason is if you >> don't >> want to run X on your local computer, which seems ridiculous >> nowadays. >> Rob Pike wrote sam in part because he didn't like having to >> cursor >> around in vi. >> > >
