> On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Larry Hudson via Python-list > <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > 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
You’re not REALLY an old timer unless you’ve used TECO. -Bill -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
