On 15 June 2011 15:54, Josh Rickmar <joshua_rickmar_AT_eumx.net> wrote:
> Why not just keep the underlying sam the same (sam -d) but write a
> different samterm for it which does one window per buffer?
That question is where my editor started. The answer to "why not" is,
sam is ugly. A common misconception is that samterm just speaks the
same language as sam -d. It doesn't, it uses a custom binary protocol
and contains a lot of caching logic and so on. The protocol wasn't
designed before implementation, I think, and it was not designed with
writing an alternative samterm in mind. It's just a de facto protocol,
and imo it is quite broken.
After starting a few samterms over the past year I decided the
protocol is just too obscure, and we can make it a lot simpler just by
writing something from scratch. That way we can also take advantage of
the new back-end, allowing us to use interactive structural regular
expressions and so on. It's easier to write a new sam-inspired editor
than restrict ourselves to the samterm protocol. And that's what I'm
going to do, rolling in a few ideas from other editors as I go.
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