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Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs)
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Rusi |
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Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs) |
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Thu, 29 May 2014 21:10:42 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Friday, May 30, 2014 9:01:18 AM UTC+5:30, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Allan Streib wrote:
> > Emanuel Berg writes:
> > > For the Unix world, I have read there was once an
> > > editor called ed that didn't showed the file being
> > > manipulated at all - the "state" of the file, as it was
> > > called (unbelievable).
> Once was and still is too. The GNU ed is available.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/
> > Teletypes and other brands of paper-based "terminals" were commonplace
> > then. You didn't need (nor was it practical) for the editor to display
> > the contents of the file, when it was already printed on the paper in
> > front of you. So you used sed-like search/replace commands.
> When I was at university I wrote thousands of lines of code using qed
> (a precurser to ed on the old Honeywell GCOS system) and paper
> terminals over acoustic coupled modems. If nothing else it will teach
> you how to use regular expressions at a very deep level! Editors like
> ed are actually very efficient if you know how to use them.
> > Even the first CRTs were dumb (aka "glass teletypes") and didn't have
> > addressable cursors. You cloud clear and redraw the screen maybe, which
> > was painful at 110 or 300 baud.
> Agreed. Very painful. From first hand experience.
> Here is a funny modern day ed story.
:
:
> I still prefer emacs however.
Yeah I had a friend who staunchly believed that using ed
would clarify the thoughts and purify the soul.
I sometimes get the feel that we emacs users look like analogous cartoons to
the current generation.
- Re: RTF for emacs, (continued)
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- Re: RTF for emacs, Emanuel Berg, 2014/05/28
- editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2014/05/28
- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2014/05/28
- Re: editor and word processor history, Glyn Millington, 2014/05/29
- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), James Freer, 2014/05/29
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- Re: editor and word processor history, Haines Brown, 2014/05/29
- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), Allan Streib, 2014/05/29
- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), Robert Thorpe, 2014/05/29
- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), Bob Proulx, 2014/05/29
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- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2014/05/31
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- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2014/05/29
- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), James Freer, 2014/05/30
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- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2014/05/30
- Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs), James Freer, 2014/05/30
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- From: Sharon Kimble, Subject: Re: editor and word processor history, Emanuel Berg, 2014/05/31
- Re: From: Sharon Kimble, Subject: Re: editor and word processor history, Barry Margolin, 2014/05/31
- Re: From: Sharon Kimble, Subject: Re: editor and word processor history, Emanuel Berg, 2014/05/31
- Re: From: Sharon Kimble, Subject: Re: editor and word processor history, Sharon Kimble, 2014/05/31
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- Re: From: Sharon Kimble, Subject: Re: editor and word processor history, Emanuel Berg, 2014/05/31