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From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: text editor
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On Jun 02 2010 11:45, Robert Bonomi 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.
> 
> Anybody else familiar with TECO?      <*EVIL* grin>
> 
> It could do a _LOT_ of things, but a complex command string was nearly 
> indistinguishable from line noise.  :)
> 
ED is the standard text editor!

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

Yes, I remember TECO -- I've used it to trash many a file.