Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:52:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Message-ID: <19980911085233.M583@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35F7D04C.C92E14E1@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 07:12:44AM -0600 References: <35F6F04C.D1E5C6CE@softweyr.com> <9698.905291210@time.cdrom.com> <19980908181556.58116@futuresouth.com> <19980909184657.S583@freebie.lemis.com> <35F7D04C.C92E14E1@softweyr.com>
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On Thursday, 10 September 1998 at 7:12:44 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. Didn't you just say that sos was terrible? > 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. Yes, I recall that from somewhere. Didn't CP/M's ED do that too? Or was it something like the editor from Zapple? 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
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