It seems, the troll was successfull by generating a discussion. :) You cannot compare sam with ed. The first is not a line editor. Plan9 has a lot of conceptual improvements over Unix/BSD. See: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/
Rodrigo. On Wed, 18 May 2016, Joel WirÄmu Pauling wrote: > ed() > > QED. > > > On 18 May 2016 at 14:33, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > >>> acme(1) >> >> Or sam(1) if you are a purist.