Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:45:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text editor Message-ID: <201006021645.o52GjEvM022143@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jun 2 01:20:03 2010 > Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 01:20:07 -0500 > From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: text editor > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K. > > > > I remember when . . . > > > > I got nuthin'. I think my first text editor was edlin, and it *sucked*. > > > > . . . not counting this nifty editor I called "pencil". > > > > > The phrase "son of an edlin" has happily been retired in my vocabulary for > some time. If you're not aware of it, ed(1) is as capable or more of > causing pain as edlin was and it's still in the FreeBSD base. Anybody else familiar with TECO? <*EVIL* grin> It could do a _LOT_ of things, but a complex command string was nearly indistinguishable from line noise. :)
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