Date: 10 Sep 1998 22:49:41 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Calvin M Meloon <calvin@pompano.pcola.gulf.net> Cc: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Message-ID: <xzp3e9z4rru.fsf@hel.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Calvin M Meloon's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:16:42 -0500 (CDT)" References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980910131456.20268A-100000@pompano.pcola.gulf.net>
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Calvin M Meloon <calvin@pompano.pcola.gulf.net> writes: > For many of us from the pre-windows pc era we preferred the ... > > Borland Turbo Editor > > in the TurboC and TurboPascal environments. It rocked. WordStar ripoff. Anybody ever used WordStar? It used to be THE text processor on the IBM PC platform, and just about every editor written for the PC until the early nineties was either a WordStar clone or had a WordStar compatibility mode. My all-time favorite DOS editor was Mr Ed, though I switched to Boxer later because it had syntax highlighting (kinda) and was configurable enough that you could teach it Emacs-like key bindings and make it use Unix-style line endings (\n instead of DOS' \r\n). Mr Ed was the best programming editor I'd ever used before I learned Emacs - I especially liked its extremely powerful search/replace functionality (regexp search/replace through batches of file, with or without confirmation) and a few nifty things such as summary mode (which showed only lines that began with an alphanumeric or underscore, i.e. function and variable declarations). Of course, Emacs has most of that and more... DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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