On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > > > When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi > > *and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, > > 'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor > > that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time. > > > Ed, man! !man ed > > Yeah, and in the early 1960s I fed paper tape into a Burroughs > mainframe, > in the early 1970s I fed 80-column Hollerith cards into the IBM S/360, and > in the > late 1970s I used a Teletype terminal and Diablo typewriter/printer. Using > ed is like flipping logic switches on the front of the computer to program > it. > > Now is much better. Both emacs and vi do the job; pick the one you like. > Just so it was clear - that was a joke posting I was reposting from 1991....not intended to start a flame war about who has the most history :) I have both written an ed clone and used ed, but gosh, I sure enjoy using vim and even emacs a lot more! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
