I started trying pkgsrc today (I use Debian Stable).  It's interesting.  I don't know if it "sucks".  It seems to be fairly sophisticated/elaborate, so maybe it is "heavy" rather than light.  Anyway . . .
I found ssam in the editors directory [1] which seems to be maintained by Alistair G. Crooks.  It looks like it was actually written by Alistair G. Crooks based on the copyright notice in the source files.  I am guessing that it is a completely independent (reverse-engineered?) implementation of Structural Regular Expressions.  Can anyone confirm or deny this?  Has anyone tried it, or know how compatible it is with Plan9 sam/ssam?  Plan9Port has an ssam too which is just a script to use sam.
[1]  
https://pkgsrc.se/editors/ssam
Received on Wed May 26 2021 - 18:36:44 CEST