On 07/08/2016 11:19 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > There are or were lots of odd editors for the PC. IBM E was one -- > apparently it's quite like some mainframe tool. Came with PC-DOS and > was... strange.
Originally, PC-DOS had only EDLIN, which, amazingly, was *less* powerful than CP/M ED. "E" in PC DOS didn't come about until version 6.3 or so. By then, MS had their EDIT editor which was intimately tied into QuickBASIC. Before that, when I typed "E" on my old PC systems, I get the Semware editor--a very nice tool. I purchased it, but rarely used it. Another good DOS editor was VEDIT, which, IIRC, was also offered for the IBM Displaywriter. I still don't like *nix vi to this very day. --Chuck
