In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith W. Roberts
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Denny Watkins
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [U2] OT: Unix Version of PR1MOS EDitor
I had to blow the dust off my old copy of the "Hacker's Guide to the
Prime" to remind myself about the Primos ED command. Dare I ask why
you would want to find a Unix equivalent?
I'll bet he is longing for the GMODIFY commands within ED! -------
ABSOULTELY CORRECT!!!!
Good grief! Why work so hard? Use vim (vi), or even sed or awk if all you
want is the gmodify. :)
Maybe he's not familiar with those commands?
Seriously, even the most primitive features of vi beat the stuffing out of a
line editor (even Pr1me's ED, which is admittedly the best line editor I
ever ran into).
It's all very well saying vi beats the stuffing out of a line editor,
but if that's the case I'd rather have the Sheffield Editor instead ...
the problem with vi (or emacs) is that I'm not familiar with either, and
the documentation is (from my point of view) pretty naff. Maybe I ought
to buy the relevant animal book, but ... I'm too used to nice manuals
coming with programs :-)
I don't know if it made its way abroad, but it was very popular over
here. Fully (well, almost) with ED, but full screen as well (I found an
incompatibility between the two, oddly enough in the way GModify
worked!)
I wish I could get a copy of it, but it was written in Pascal and they
dropped it ages ago. Gave the source away to anybody who would pay for
it and said "thank you, end of support, bye-bye" :-(
Cheers,
Wol
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