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 21b62d1e for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 293459C62F; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:29:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4839C610; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:28:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A3E919C610; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:28:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF8249C60F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:28:47 +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 00QISjlt009553 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 26 Jan 2020 11:28:46 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 00QISjhn009552; Sun, 26 Jan 2020 11:28:45 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202001261828.00QISjhn009552@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 11:28:45 -0700 To: txomsy@yahoo.es, tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <20200120155946.169b39e0.ref@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es> <20200120155946.169b39e0@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es> In-Reply-To: <20200120155946.169b39e0@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es> 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: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" "Jose R. Valverde via TUHS" wrote: > Talking of editors... > > On ancient UNIX, my editor of choice was 's' from Software Tools, its > main advantage being that it didn't require curses. That editor was from "A Software Tools Sampler" by Webb Miller, not "Software Tools" by Kernighan and Plauger. I happened to pull out my copy of that book a week or so ago. It's truly strange looking at pre-ANSI / pre-POSIX code. I feel like that book did not have the same sort of eternally true value as the two Software Tools books do. Arnold