From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 10 16:22:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA24213 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:22:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24195 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA02960; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:52:44 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA13177; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:52:34 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980911085233.M583@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:52:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed References: <35F6F04C.D1E5C6CE@softweyr.com> <9698.905291210@time.cdrom.com> <19980908181556.58116@futuresouth.com> <19980909184657.S583@freebie.lemis.com> <35F7D04C.C92E14E1@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35F7D04C.C92E14E1@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 07:12:44AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 10 September 1998 at 7:12:44 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> From the sublime to the ridiculous. EDLIN was just a toy, built long >> after some useful but arcane editors were well-known. >> >> Anybody use teco? > > We had it on the DEC-10 at Weber, but it didn't work well with the > TeleWidget terminals we had. Apparently the computing center folks > couldn't be bothered to install the TVI912 terminal drivers for it. > We all just used sos, which was a reasonable line editor, and even > understood how to properly number COBOL and BASIC programs for you. Didn't you just say that sos was terrible? > The odd thing about sos is that it used ESC to separate commands > from parameters, like search and replace strings. It meant you > could search and replace any printable character, though. Yes, I recall that from somewhere. Didn't CP/M's ED do that too? Or was it something like the editor from Zapple? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message