On 11/05/2015 05:18 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:19:39 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
<invalid@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following:
Though I used a line-editor for a while on VMS, I was never very good
at it, and abanded it for a full-screen editor at he first
opportunity. But, if you ever get a chance to watching somebody who
_is_ good at 'ed', it's something you'll remember...
I didn't convert to EDT until DEC dropped SOS... And then shortly later
I keymapped the Blaise ([Alcor] Pascal) editor on the TRS-80 Mod-III to
replicate EDT (as much as possible, given only three function keys on the
numeric pad)
The Amiga used to have two standard editors -- a screen editor and a
line editor; as I recall the line editor supported a file window, so one
could edit large files by making a single direction pass using a smaller
window and a script. Later the screen editor gained ARexx support, so one
could script it using ARexx. (And by then they also included a form of
microEMACS, my C compiler had a look-alike vi editor... and a later C
compiler had another editor integrated to the compiler so that error
message reports could trigger the editor to open the file and move to the
error position)
Anyone besides me remember the CP/M editor Mince (Mince Is Not Complete EMACS)?
It was an emacs-like editor, without any e-Lisp or other way of extending it. I believe it was
my first exposure to a screen-oriented editor. I quite liked it at that time (but that was a
looonnng time ago!)
-=- Larry -=-
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
