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

[Noel Hunt]

I couldn't agree more. After I was exposed to 'sam' in 1987, there
was no other editor.

I was, however, heavily involved in the porting of 'pads' and 'pi'
to Solaris and Linux, and 'pads' has a 'move' operation, distinct
from 'resize/reshape'. I had sometimes felt the need of such an
operation when I had a large samterm open with lots of open files,
so, with no pretensions to originality, I took the code from 'pads'
and put it into 'samterm', and it was trivial to add. For which I
should perhaps apologize to the author of 'sam'.


On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 at 12:12, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
wrote:

> 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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