From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 20:21: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CE637B404 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:20:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NRHK-000Bpq-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 04:20:54 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id A31D5117C; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 05:20:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 05:20:52 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: Editors in base FBSD Message-ID: <20020107042052.GA1368@raggedclown.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20020106095140.01937458@mail.sage-american.com> <20020107102311.G45844@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020107102311.G45844@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:23:11AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > I can't possibly think of a worse solution. I've never seen a > Microsoft-based telnet client that wasn't broken, the telnet protocol > is insecure, and I've never seen a really good editor which runs under > Microsoft. > ...oh, long ago and far away there was an editor called "brief", which achieved almost cult-status in it's day, it was very good, way ahead of it's time, and if I recall correctly mind-bogglingly expensive... I once also used an MS-DOS "version" of vi, it was somewhat less than "featureful" ... But this is talking of earlier happier days when people still used DOS a lot and Windows was yet to stage it's bloody coup. In those days some very creative people pushed DOS to it's limits, and wrote some amazing programs for it. I remember programming in Clipper...is that still alive and kicking ? I guess it was the tk/tcl of it's day. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message