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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.
+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.