[TUHS] upwards from ed (was: End of an era: the last ATC)

Douglas McIlroy douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
Fri Jul 18 12:02:57 AEST 2025


I always recoiled from vi's plethora of commands. Then came sam, and I
haven't looked back since. It handles multiple windows with barely
more commands than ed, real regular expressions, good mouse support,
and great global editing capability. It can even run by script without
a screen.

Doug


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