From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 14:29:16 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: <1509576688.7596.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> References: <1509576688.7596.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: <91fe7034-a91c-eeb8-e722-3242fa835621@tnetconsulting.net> On 11/01/2017 04:51 PM, Norman Wilson wrote: > Or, if you have moved beyond the era of simulated glass > teletypes on graphics screens, you could do the editing > in the terminal (program). Maybe it's my naivety, but I can't visualize the workflow using something else. (I briefly tried finding videos to see it, but failed.) > It's a real shame the mux/9term way of doing things never > caught on. I suppose it is because so many people are > wedded to programs that require cursor addressing; I'm > glad I never succumbed to that. I've had people tell me things about 9term, but I can't fathom what using it would be like. > I use ed (or its cousin qed a la Toronto) for simple stuff. > Mostly I'll use the traditional commands, but sometimes > I will, in mux/9term style, print a line with p, type > c, edit the line on the screen, pick it up and send it, > type . return. What do you mean by "pick it up" and "send it"? Will you please elaborate on what your day to day process (using 9term's editing ability) is like? > And of course I can do that sort of thing with any program, > whether or not it is compiled with some magic library. > > All this is something of a matter of taste, but I have > sometimes amazed (in a good way) my colleagues with it. :-) -- Grant. . . . unix || die -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3717 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: