From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 10 06:12:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21681 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 06:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21672 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 06:12:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07544; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 07:25:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <35F7D04C.C92E14E1@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 07:12:44 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed References: <35F6F04C.D1E5C6CE@softweyr.com> <9698.905291210@time.cdrom.com> <19980908181556.58116@futuresouth.com> <19980909184657.S583@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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? We had it on the DEC-10 at Weber, but it didn't work well with the TeleWidget terminals we had. Apparently the computing center folks couldn't be bothered to install the TVI912 terminal drivers for it. We all just used sos, which was a reasonable line editor, and even understood how to properly number COBOL and BASIC programs for you. The odd thing about sos is that it used ESC to separate commands from parameters, like search and replace strings. It meant you could search and replace any printable character, though. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message