The Text Editor Sam by Rob Pike
Ports
- The latest and 'official' sam version is included as part of Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Plan 9 from User Space for *nix systems.
- A standalone port of p9p's sam to Windows, includes some command line utilities (grep, awk, 9p, etc.) by Michael Teichgräber. (Download mirror.)
Documentation and manuals
- The Text Editor
sam- The original paper by Rob Pike. - sam(1) - The sam man page in Plan 9.
- A tutorial for the sam command language - Documents the editing language.
- A Sam commands cheat sheet by Steve Simon.
Contact and support
- 9fans
- #plan9@irc.freenode.org
Notable Sam Users
- Ken Thompson, inventor of Unix and many other things.
- Brian Kernighan, of K&R and K&P fame, the 'K' in awk, and much more.
- Tom Duff (of Duff's Device and Star Wars' Death Star fame).
- Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++.
Related projects
- Acme: Rob's next, more ambitious (some might say over-ambitious) text editor and user interface for programmers.