> I've been using (N)MH since 2,000
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> > So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the
> > distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR. More specifically, I never
> > understood when you were supposed to use one versus the other.
>
>i can answer that one.
>
>in the bad old days, if you were working on a slow dialup
ken wrote:
> So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the
> distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR. More specifically, I never
> understood when you were supposed to use one versus the other.
i can answer that one.
in the bad old days, if you were working on a slow
>EDITOR and VISUAL are environment variables - therefore did
>not exist before 7th edition (or 32V) - that is, about 79. All of
>MH, e, ex, vi, and Mail existed long before those could possibly
>have been in use.Exactly when EDITOR first appeared I am
>not sure (it was not one of the env
ken wrote:
> > > So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the
> > > distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR. More specifically, I never
> > > understood when you were supposed to use one versus the other.
> >
> >i can answer that one.
> >
> >in the bad old days, if
Date:Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:29:30 -0400
From:Ken Hornstein
Message-ID: <20180319192931.209f1d0...@pb-smtp1.pobox.com>
| So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the
| distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR.
Paul's explanation
Date:Sun, 18 Mar 2018 15:39:50 -0700
From:Bakul Shah
Message-ID: <20180318224005.c8d91156e...@mail.bitblocks.com>
| Bill Joy wrote vi in 1976 while at UCB.
I know, but it wasn't on the 1BSD tape (ex was I think), the vi
command in ex (and the