From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id bb4353a6 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2020 16:31:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7B29B9BBCE; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 02:31:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3001951B1; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 02:31:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6A5D3951B1; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 02:31:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C990095196 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 02:30:59 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 007GUs6P030453 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 7 Jan 2020 09:30:54 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 007GUrBj030452; Tue, 7 Jan 2020 09:30:53 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202001071630.007GUrBj030452@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:30:53 -0700 To: lm@mcvoy.com, doug@cs.dartmouth.edu References: <202001070231.0072ViZp123105@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <20200107023834.GN20269@mcvoy.com> In-Reply-To: <20200107023834.GN20269@mcvoy.com> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] screen editors X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Larry McVoy wrote: > I'm a vi guy to this day. Love it. In the summer of '82 I did some contract programming at Southern Bell on a PDP-11 running USG Unix 4.0. It had a screen editor called 'se' that I only ever saw there, written somewhere in the Bell System and squeezed to run on an -11. Anyone know anything about it? Unrelated, Georgia Tech had the 'se' screen editor as part of the Software Tools Subsystem, based on the 'ed' in the Software Tools book. This was later ported to Unix. I modified that code to use curses/termlib and posted it to USENET. It's been updated and is available from https://github.com/se-editor/se and http://se-editor.org is the home page. (Thomas Cort IIRC did that work.) What's funny is that in doing the work to get 'se' running on Georgia Tech's Vax, I had to learn vi. By the time I was done, vi had become my main editor and had burned itself into my finger's ROMs. Arnold