On 8 July 2016 at 20:42, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> 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.
Oh my, yes. I was quite the Edlin virtuoso in the late '80s, but then, there really wasn't much to master. > "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. Ah yes, true. It got separated out in the NT era. > 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. Never saw them! > I still don't like *nix vi to this very day. Oh good, it's not just me. :-) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
