Vi replaced Ed (Editor) tedc
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com>wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:56:04PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com > >wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:13:00 -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > > > > > > > Paul, > > > > > > > > > > > > It should be noted that in Linux/Unix, all the development tools are > > > > command-line based, and so any IDE is going to call make, gcc, git, > gdb, > > > > javac, etc behind the scenes anyway to do the actual work. > > > > > > And C was originally invented jointly with a command-line Unix system. > > > So using it this way fits with tradition. > > > > > > Yup. Worse, from an editing/developing standpoint, the standard terminal > > was a teletype terminal, a combination printer and keyboard that usually > > printed at the rate of about 4 characters/second (45 Baud). > > The slowest I ever encountreed in the 60's was 110 boud, about 10 > characters per second. But for typing, the old KSR teletypes required > so much force that it may well have taken superhuman finger strength to > enter more than about 4 characters per second, whatever the baud rate. > > > This virtually > > demanded a terse command line syntax and the bare minimum of excess > output. > > And it's why the common Unix commands are so cryptically short. > > > > > > > What emacs accomplished in those early days was to be a UI for text > > > terminals. You had multiple 'buffers', which could be put in > differennt > > > places on the screen, or placed in the background to be recalled later. > > > Some buffers would contain files t edit, others aould act as command- > > > language terminals, and so forth. > > > > > > > It still does those things, which is still very, very useful. > > Yes. > > > > > > > > > > > > X was started as a project in 1984 at MIT. Both Emacs (from MIT) and vi > > (from Berkeley) were first written in 1976 or so. Both Emacs and vi came > > out of a desire to make line or tape oriented editors easier to use on > the > > new-fangled CRT displays. Emacs was originally a set of macros for the > > TECO (Tape Editor and COrrector) editor, > > Yes.. But it's not the one we have now. Richard Stallman had a > copyright dispute with MIT, which resulted in MIT taking his emacs > proprietary. He has an early free-software licence in the emacs manual, > declaring emacs to be free, and MIT decided that it was work-for-hire > and took it over. > > THis was one of the events on the way to his GNU public license ans the > dree software foundation. As I understand it, one of the first pieces > of GNU software was a new emacs, this time based on a Lisp dialect. The > result was the emacs we have today. > > -- hendrik > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
