Too many years ago; I don't remember. And it isn't as if "unintuitive" is a fatal error in editors or any other application; TECO (anyone ever use that?) is a powerful editor - it was on the PDP platform as I recall - with early automation features that I used extensively, and it was full of odd uses for <ESC> and '$' and some other characters, but it did a good job - once I was used to it. But whatever this Unix editor was, a half hour wasn't enough for me to learn much about it or get used to anything.
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* People who can't distinguish between "etymology" and "entomology" bug me in ways I cannot put into words. -Tal Waterhouse */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 10:26 The Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rule. But I don't use it when it's not mandatory. Would that be vi, AKA the editor from Hell? It has the advantage that if you have to use a random *ix system, there will almost certainly be some version available. If not vi, was it emacs? ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 9:58 AM I once spent an agonizing half-hour trying to help a Unix programmer code a program in a language I know using some kind of Unix editor that was so unintuitive I could hardly accomplish anything. I wouldn't mind getting used to it - I'm not tired of learning yet - but life is short and I seem to be picking up other new skills instead, at least for now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
