Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:16:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Calvin M Meloon <calvin@pompano.pcola.gulf.net> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980910131456.20268A-100000@pompano.pcola.gulf.net> In-Reply-To: <19980910110605.B20261@notabene.zer0.org>
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On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Gregory Sutter wrote:
> Personally, after having to use EDLIN a bit, I stayed far far away
> from line editors, preferring fullscreen editors such as:
>
> MS-DOS EDIT (what an editor. unmatched capabilities)
> MS Notepad (again, Microsoft comes up with a winner)
> xedit (I wonder how many were forced to use this VM/CMS monstrosity.)
> pico (Ugreat Ueditor, Ureally.)
> ee (in the spirit of EDIT, I'm sure)
> joe (wasn't really my cup of tea)
> emacs (Eighteen Megs And Crashes Steadily, someone once told me)
> elvis (vi impersonator)
> vim (the crown jewel of text editors)
For many of us from the pre-windows pc era we preferred the ...
Borland Turbo Editor
in the TurboC and TurboPascal environments. It rocked.
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