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+sam -- a fork of the standard text editor for Plan 9 from Bell Labs
+
+sam is a text editor originally written for the Blit graphical terminal
+connected to a machine running 9th Edition Research Unix. It contained many
+useful innovations, the most famous of which was its use of structural regular
+expressions.