From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 10 19:35:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24229 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24219 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id EAA10046 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 04:35:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (VMailer, from userid 101) id 549431485; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 01:46:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 01:46:47 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Message-ID: <19980911014647.A17618@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.4i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzp3e9z4rru=2Efsf=40hel=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from_Da?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?g-Erling_Co=EFdanSm=F8rgrav__on_Thu=2C_Sep_10=2C_1998_at_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?10:49:41PM_+0200?= X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#4623 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Dag-Erling CoïdanSmørgrav : > WordStar ripoff. Anybody ever used WordStar? It used to be THE text I've never been able to bear Wordstar's ripoffs. I hate these. > My all-time favorite DOS editor was Mr Ed, though I switched to Boxer Mine is -- surprisingly enough -- an editor made by Microsoft and shipped with the MSC 5.0 and 5.1. It was called 'M' and had a very interesting design, including a postfixed macro language. It had regular expressions far before many others too. You could even write extentions in C for it (although I had to disassemble the editor to find the interface and all the function names). I added several features in C, including line drawing, #include search, and mouse support ! That was also the heart of their PWB integrated editor/compiler although it was hidden behind menus :-( I still have it: 486 [1:41] roberto@keltia:/tmp/doc> ll /dos/c/usr/bin/ -rwx------ 1 roberto staff 142336 Apr 20 1989 m.exe -rwx------ 1 roberto staff 766 Sep 18 1990 m.ico -rwx------ 1 roberto staff 545 Mar 23 1991 m.pif -rwx------ 1 roberto staff 24576 Mar 28 1991 mext.mxt The last file is the one containing my extentions: 486 [1:41] roberto@keltia:/tmp/doc> what /dos/c/usr/bin/mext.mxt /dos/c/usr/bin/mext.mxt: stub.asm:1.00, O.ROBERT, 01-Sep-1989 vio.asm:3.13, O.ROBERT, 08-Oct-1989 gets.asm:1.10, O.ROBERT, 02-Jan-1989 487 [1:42] roberto@keltia:/tmp/doc> strings !$ |more ... MS-DOS Editor Extensions Version v.2.35.06 - Mar 28 1991 - O. ROBERT ... The Good Ol' Times [tm] :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #63: Tue Sep 1 00:50:29 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message