Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes: > So ... I guess programs would look at the terminal and if your speed was > 9600 baud or greater, you'd use VISUAL, and if it was slower you'd use > EDITOR? I could believe that (although from memory I don't recall vi > being that bad at 2400 baud, but it was a while ago!).
Speed wasn’t the only thing, remember. I certainly used a hardcopy terminal in 1979, probably later (not connected to a Unix system, but still), and neither vi nor emacs would have been a good choice :-) -- Jón Fairbairn [email protected] -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
