Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:50:31 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bf1783@googlemail.com Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin Message-ID: <200906260950.33772.erich@apsara.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <87zlbvu7km.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906260820.21326.erich@apsara.com.sg> <87zlbvu7km.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Hi, On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:20:19 +0800, Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> wrote: > >On 25 June 2009 pm 19:13:14 Konrad Heuer wrote: > >> Maybe you're right, maybe not. > >> > >> 20 years ago, I've written and edited voluminous fortran > >> code on a silly rs232 terminal using ed. So, it is possible, > >> and one > > > > I do not believe you. This must have been 30 years back. > > As far as 16 years back, VT220/VT320 terminals were in wide use > in universities. Some of us learned our first regexp stuff by not only there, but ed was not the editor of choice even those days anymore. > reading the source of ed(1) and typing small programs in those > terminals. vi(1) was available for a long time before 1993, > but this doesn't mean other editors had died out by then :) If I remember right, I used something like ed only in the Seventies. A collegue programmed then even a WordStar clone for RSX to have a nice editor. Of course, only for VT-100 Terminals. Erich
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