Thanks folks for all the suggestions and pointers. Now it's just a
small matter of putting it all into practice ;-)
Dworkin
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On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, at 7:54 PM, Silas McCroskey wrote:
> > In any case, Plan 9's ed has a nice "browse" command which sam can't match.
> > I used to issue "0bn", then just "b" once per page. Or, if you don't want
> > line numbers, leave out the "n".
>
> "+,+20p" does it. Doesn't work near the e
On Sat, Jul 3, 2021, at 3:29 AM, umbrati...@prosimetrum.com wrote:
> nothing's tying you to sam syntax:
>
> ,|awk '{print NR "\t" $0}'
>
> then undo.
Good points. I used to pipe through other tools often, and very often used to
make temporary changes and undo them. Can't remember specific uses
On 2 Jul 2021, at 19:06, Ethan Gardener
mailto:eeke...@fastmail.fm>> wrote:
This reminds me why I switched to Forth: I can program my editor properly
Could you expand on this point?
Vaguely aware of Forth, but no experience with forth editors
Silas
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On Sat, Jul 3, 2021, at 5:32 PM, silas poulson wrote:
>> On 2 Jul 2021, at 19:06, Ethan Gardener wrote:
>>
>> This reminds me why I switched to Forth: I can program my editor properly
>
> Could you expand on this point?
>
> Vaguely aware of Forth, but no experience with forth editors
Sure. The
On Sat, 03 Jul 2021 22:33:07 +0100, "Ethan Gardener"
wrote:
eekee57> To be honest, it helps that the editor's source code is only
eekee57> about 2.5KB. ;)
So you're using the Forth environment as your editor, not just using
Forth to drive sam or acme?
Dworkin
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