Re: [dev] Re: Experimental editor

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:42:27PM +0200, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> Josh Rickmar <joshua_rickmar_AT_eumx.net> writes:
>
> > This makes sense. I love sam, but always wished there was a way to
> > switch to the command window (~~sam~~) using the keyboard.
>
> I think sam together with the "common" discussed keybindings (which are
> partly implemented in p9p already), up/down-cursor keys for line
> movement(!) and shift-cursor selection would be a very usable and powerful
> editor already.
>
> Next step would be to drop its windowing system and use X11 windows.
>
> I'd also kill for a console samterm. ;)

Why not just keep the underlying sam the same (sam -d) but write a
different samterm for it which does one window per buffer? This
would also make it easy to switch to any buffer you wanted since
it would just be part of the window manger.
Received on Wed Jun 15 2011 - 16:54:49 CEST