On 03/10/2019 12:00 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 8:10 AM James Knott via talk <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 03/09/2019 05:18 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Surely next will be MS Office! > > I'm still waiting on EDLIN. ;-) > > > Oh indeed!!! > > It would be interesting to compare code and functionality to ed... > > Has anyone else noticed that there is now a book on mastering ed, by > Michael Lucas? I sorta want a copy of that ;-) >
I've only come across one editor that was worse than EDLIN. It was the line editor on Pr1me computers. We had a few of those systems at work. As I recall, you could only jump to the top or bottom of the file or use relative jumps. You couldn't jump directly to a specific line. =-O --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
