The Text Editor Sam by Rob Pike

A minimalist text editor with a graphical user interface, a very powerful command language and remote editing capabilities. Written by Rob Pike.

Also could be considered a graphical version of the venerable ed on steroids, lots of steroids.

Ports

The source for Sam is extremely portable, and ports exist for many platforms, here are some:

Documentation and Manuals

Contact and Support

9fans

join #plan9 on irc.freenode.org

Notable Sam Users

About the Name

Sam is short for Samantha.

Related Projects and Programs

Acme: Rob’s next, more ambitious (some might say over-ambitious) text editor and user interface for programmers.

ssam - An rc script that is part of Plan 9 from User Space and allows using the sam language on streams.

See also