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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge jeremy@sw....
Subject: 8-1/2 (was: Really about PLan 9)
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 06:02:26 -0400

In <425kho$524@boo...> jason@abs... (Jason Haynes) writes:
>For every day tasks I use pico,
>since it's quick and neat.  For real editing tasks (programming, etc), I
>almost always use Sam.  I only wish it had some ability for customization,
>at least some sort of alias/macro feature for storing commonly used regex. 

It does:

; whatis S
fn S {sam $* $home/lib/sampad}
; cat lib/sampad
<collection of various useful commands and regexps, which I can cut'n'paste
 into the command window, including some a little like the Emacs directory mode,
 which munges the output of ls to make files easily accessible>

	J