Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:26:44 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text editor Message-ID: <20100602112644.GA90934@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinwdnsotaCIGzNSvqaXmaQ_hiI2qQyc_wW4-EHz@mail.gmail.com> References: <201005311636.o4VGarkt001701@mail.r-bonomi.com> <87zkzgx8rd.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100531203115.GA2167@guilt.hydra> <4C04AD94.7040706@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100601130946.GB5717@guilt.hydra> <20100601161022.GB36228@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100602061001.GB7993@guilt.hydra> <AANLkTinwdnsotaCIGzNSvqaXmaQ_hiI2qQyc_wW4-EHz@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:20:07AM -0500, Adam Vande More typed: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K. > > > > I remember when . . . > > > > I got nuthin'. I think my first text editor was edlin, and it *sucked*. > > > > . . . not counting this nifty editor I called "pencil". > > > > > The phrase "son of an edlin" has happily been retired in my vocabulary for > some time. If you're not aware of it, ed(1) is as capable or more of > causing pain as edlin was and it's still in the FreeBSD base. Most usefull traditional Unix tools can cause pain or foot-shooting. That's what makes them usefull.
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