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From: "Jose R. Valverde via TUHS" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Screen editors
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:59:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200120155946.169b39e0@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200120155946.169b39e0.ref@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es>

Talking of editors...

Once I learned Wordstar in old CP/M (before that it was mostly line
editing), and then soon, other editors that supported the Wordstar key
combinations, I got hooked on those. Joe is, to date, one of my
favorites.

On ancient UNIX, my editor of choice was 's' from Software Tools, its
main advantage being that it didn't require curses. Then we got VMS and
'eve' and that took over for a while (though I never took advantage of
all its power), mostly until I ported 's' and 'joe'.

Then came X, and when nedit was released, I was hooked on it. It has
been for decades almost the only one that could do block selection 'a
la' RAND editor.

I have been struggling to continue using it despite it lack of support
for UTF, trying various projects spun off nedit, until I recently
discovered xnedit, which is an update available on GitHub and is again
all I need, with support for UTF8, some minor UI improvements and
support for modern fonts.

Now, I still use 's' for ancient Unix emulators, 'joe' for the
command line and 'xnedit' for X.

				j

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       reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200120155946.169b39e0.ref@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es>
2020-01-20 14:59 ` Jose R. Valverde via TUHS [this message]
2020-01-20 16:07   ` Toby Thain
2020-01-20 16:20     ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-31 18:21       ` Jose R. Valverde via TUHS
2020-01-29 22:24     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-29 22:33       ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-07 23:05         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-07 23:54           ` Richard Salz
2020-02-08  3:11             ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-08  3:38               ` Ronald Natalie
2020-02-08  0:05           ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-29 23:00       ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-26 18:28   ` arnold
2020-01-26 18:33     ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-26 18:36       ` arnold
2020-01-26 18:40       ` arnold
2020-01-26 19:11         ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-26 19:40     ` Jon Forrest
2020-01-26 20:08     ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-26 20:32 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-26 23:14 ` Thomas Paulsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-09 21:46 [TUHS] screen editors Norman Wilson
2020-01-09 22:10 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-08  9:46 Rudi Blom
2020-01-08 14:15 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-08 15:15   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-08 15:42     ` Steve Mynott
     [not found]     ` <68b3d6df-94f6-625d-39bf-6149b4c177c9@andrewnesbit.org>
2020-01-08 20:56       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-08 23:21   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09  0:08     ` Warner Losh
2020-01-09  1:28       ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  1:40         ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  2:04           ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09  2:07             ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  2:12               ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09  2:59                 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  3:08                   ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  3:43                     ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  3:27                 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-09  3:34                   ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  3:49                   ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  3:55                     ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-09  5:27                       ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  4:23                 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 15:54                   ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09 17:21                     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 17:30                       ` Warner Losh
2020-01-09 17:56                       ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-18  2:11                         ` Michael Parson
2020-01-09 18:53                       ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09 19:01                         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 19:02                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-09 19:19                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-09 20:20                     ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-18  2:06                   ` Michael Parson
2020-01-18  3:13                     ` Clem Cole
2020-01-18  3:44                       ` Kurt H Maier
2020-01-18 15:37                       ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-18 22:11                         ` markus schnalke
2020-01-09  2:14         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-09  2:48           ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-09  9:05       ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 15:11 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-08 15:37   ` Henry Bent
2020-01-18 14:22   ` Michael Parson
2020-01-08  7:39 Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 15:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-08 23:41   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09  1:43     ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-08 21:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 22:01   ` Clem Cole
2020-01-17 23:38     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-18  0:07       ` Ryan Casalino
2020-01-18 23:02       ` greg travis
2020-01-10  8:13   ` markus schnalke
2020-01-10  8:17     ` U'll Be King of the Stars
2020-01-11 19:58       ` markus schnalke
2020-01-11 20:54         ` Derek Fawcus
2020-01-11 21:27         ` Henry Bent
2020-02-04  8:40         ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2020-01-10 15:31     ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-10 16:04       ` Clem Cole
2020-01-10 17:10       ` Dan Cross
2020-01-10 17:18         ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-18  1:55           ` Michael Parson
2020-01-10 15:58     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-07 19:57 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-07 20:17 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-07 20:47 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-07  2:31 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-07  2:37 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-07  2:38 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-07 16:30   ` arnold
2020-01-07 16:38     ` Richard Salz
2020-01-07 18:32     ` Dan Cross
2020-01-07 19:14     ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-09  5:01       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-10  8:16         ` ricercar
2020-01-08  0:10     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-17 22:06       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 18:30     ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-08 21:41       ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-09  8:30       ` arnold
2020-01-07  6:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07  8:24   ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-07 20:44     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 15:29   ` Steve Mynott
2020-01-08 23:31     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07  9:43 ` ullbeking
2020-01-07 14:53   ` Dan Cross
2020-01-07 19:35   ` Rodrigo G. López
2020-01-08  5:13     ` Mark van Atten
2020-01-07 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-07 15:50 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-07 20:45   ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-07 21:20     ` Derek Fawcus

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