From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 10 13:50:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22799 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22681 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:49:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hel.ifi.uio.no (2602@hel.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.91]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id WAA02371; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:49:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hel.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:49:42 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Calvin M Meloon Cc: Gregory Sutter , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 10 Sep 1998 22:49:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: Calvin M Meloon's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:16:42 -0500 (CDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA22731 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Calvin M Meloon 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