From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 9 02:17:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA11146 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 02:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA11133 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 02:17:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA26898; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:47:06 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA05958; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:46:57 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980909184657.S583@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:46:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Matthew D. Fuller" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Wes Peters , Sue Blake , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed References: <35F6F04C.D1E5C6CE@softweyr.com> <9698.905291210@time.cdrom.com> <19980908181556.58116@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980908181556.58116@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 06:15:56PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 8 September 1998 at 18:15:56 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 02:46:50PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard woke me up to tell me: >> >> Those who started with vi and then perhaps went on to emacs just have >> no perspective on what something like ed(1) represents. :-) > > Hey, I did my time with edlin! >From the sublime to the ridiculous. EDLIN was just a toy, built long after some useful but arcane editors were well-known. Anybody use teco? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message