From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 24 18:06:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA24829 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 18:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA24823 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 18:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA19308; Fri, 24 May 1996 18:06:10 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199605250106.SAA19308@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: editors To: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 18:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk, terry@lambert.org In-Reply-To: <199605242250.AAA02601@eac.iafrica.com> from Robert Nordier at "May 25, 96 00:50:11 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ... > > Hmm. Half the trouble with the whole 'editors' thread is that > people simply aren't digging deep enough to recall some of the > really hairy, insane, and plain disgusting text editors around. > > If is all very well for some to dismiss 'vi' as an abomination, > but.... > > Anyone with a VMS background remember TECO? TECO predates VMS and the VAX by a Decade or so, try ``Anyone with a DEC PDP-8 OS/8 background remeber TECO?'', circa 1968. And yes, TECO was the first editor I ever learned... and remeber this was in the days of the ASR33 and Tektronics 4002 DVST terminals. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD