Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 01:46:47 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Message-ID: <19980911014647.A17618@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzp3e9z4rru=2Efsf=40hel=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from_Da?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?g-Erling_Co=EFdanSm=F8rgrav__on_Thu=2C_Sep_10=2C_1998_at_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?10:49:41PM_%2B0200?= References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980910131456.20268A-100000@pompano.pcola.gulf.net> <xzp3e9z4rru.fsf@hel.ifi.uio.no>
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According to Dag-Erling CoïdanSmørgrav :
> WordStar ripoff. Anybody ever used WordStar? It used to be THE text
I've never been able to bear Wordstar's ripoffs. I hate these.
> My all-time favorite DOS editor was Mr Ed, though I switched to Boxer
Mine is -- surprisingly enough -- an editor made by Microsoft and shipped
with the MSC 5.0 and 5.1. It was called 'M' and had a very interesting
design, including a postfixed macro language. It had regular expressions
far before many others too.
You could even write extentions in C for it (although I had to disassemble
the editor to find the interface and all the function names).
I added several features in C, including line drawing, #include search, and
mouse support !
That was also the heart of their PWB integrated editor/compiler although it
was hidden behind menus :-(
I still have it:
486 [1:41] roberto@keltia:/tmp/doc> ll /dos/c/usr/bin/
-rwx------ 1 roberto staff 142336 Apr 20 1989 m.exe
-rwx------ 1 roberto staff 766 Sep 18 1990 m.ico
-rwx------ 1 roberto staff 545 Mar 23 1991 m.pif
-rwx------ 1 roberto staff 24576 Mar 28 1991 mext.mxt
The last file is the one containing my extentions:
486 [1:41] roberto@keltia:/tmp/doc> what /dos/c/usr/bin/mext.mxt
/dos/c/usr/bin/mext.mxt:
stub.asm:1.00, O.ROBERT, 01-Sep-1989
vio.asm:3.13, O.ROBERT, 08-Oct-1989
gets.asm:1.10, O.ROBERT, 02-Jan-1989
487 [1:42] roberto@keltia:/tmp/doc> strings !$ |more
...
MS-DOS Editor Extensions Version v.2.35.06 - Mar 28 1991 - O. ROBERT
...
The Good Ol' Times [tm] :-)
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #63: Tue Sep 1 00:50:29 CEST 1998
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