Introduction to the Sam Text Editor

I&#x27;ll be the guy who brings vim and emacs into another editor&#x27;s story. Sorry for this, I will try sam and vis for sure though.<p>I recently moved to emacs after 20 years of vim. It is my fifth try with emacs, the other trials ended in weeks. This time I was motivated by emacs excelent support for LSP which I wanted for Go. I use Doom Emacs which is a lot better than Spacemacs in my opinion. After only 1 hour my Go experience was already a lot better than with simple vim. After a few days I started using workspaces. Then magit. After that I dived into Org mode and was blown away. Moved everything from vimwiki to that. With syncthing and orgzly I have everything on my android as well and replaced google keep with that.<p>Point is: if you are a vim user give emacs another try. Doom is mature enough imho. I will still use vim on servers. I still use vim in emacs evil so all my years investment still pays off. But for my personal workstation emacs is just wow. Nowhere near as fast as vim but the added features are worth the perfomance hit.

I learned about sam&#x27;s structural regular expressions after learning about vis[1] on a post in this website. It aims to combine the modal text editing from vi(m) and sam&#x27;s structural regular expressions, plus some cool stuff like multiple cursors or a Lua API.<p>I feel more comfortable with it than sam&#x27;s given than I&#x27;m not as much as a mouse person but a keyboard person (even though being a graphic designer). It&#x27;s development is not as heavy as is stuff like neovim or kakoune, but still at this very moment I find it usable, quick and reliable.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;martanne&#x2F;vis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;martanne&#x2F;vis</a>

another plan9+vi mashup in the opposite direction to vis:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c9x.me&#x2F;edit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c9x.me&#x2F;edit&#x2F;</a>

I really enjoyed reading this, thank you for sharing. Love the screenshots!