On May 9, 2018 9:11:49 AM EDT, David Collier-Brown via talk <[email protected]> wrote: >On 09/05/18 07:51 AM, Russell via talk wrote: >> The article described the move as a step backwards. Best quote from >the comments. >> >> "On a mechanical typewriter when you pull the lever you get an LF >first then a CR. So Windows is already backwards." >> >> >https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/notepad-gets-a-major-upgrade-now-does-unix-line-endings/ >> >If I remember correctly from the 11-780 days, when I hit return the >cursor went to the left edge of the stream, and when the shell finished > >launching the command I'd typed, it went to the next line. > >When it was slow, you knew that it was taking time loading. For >example, >if you just told it to load emacs (;-))
By the time I was using emacs, mostly for dssl and xslt validation, somebody had written viper-mode macros to make it vi like. Saved your pinky and kept all the list processing macros. I'll bet the wait was better than trying to use ed and ex. > >--dave > >-- >David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify >System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest >[email protected] | -- Mark Twain -- Russell --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
