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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] text editor
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In-Reply-To: <20020426100822.41AC5199E8@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from rog@vitanuova.com on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:11:57AM +0100
From: Micah Stetson <micah@cnm-vra.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:30:19 -0700
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> When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi *and*
> Emacs are just too damn slow.  They print useless messages like, 'C-h for
> help' and '"foo" File is read only'.  So I use the editor that doesn't
> waste my VALUABLE time.
>
> Ed, man!  !man ed

This actually isn't much of a joke, even in today's world.
I sometimes have to fix a problem on some remote Unix
system that's only accessible through an ISDN line (or
some such) that's already heavily used by a bunch of
people in the office looking at web pages.  Ed is about
the only editor that doesn't slow to a crawl.  Of course,
sam -r works great in this situation, too.

Micah