From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 13:06:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2NE7s8ut19Uap5fNDbaM_j0xTF2GFvZjTt9OqznXa4jtA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 12:47 PM Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> It used to freakout my coworkers no end that if there was no emacs on the
> machine, I'd just blast through everything using ed. Nice thing about
> doing a lot of work in ed: you get very good at regular expressions.
>
Yep - although there was usually a vi, which is why I stuck with it.
uemacs just sucked. WRT ^H yeah - it also galled me that if you type ^H to
ITS, they knew what you wanted to do and would torment you by telling you
to use DEL. Sigh...
Clem
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-06 2:57 Will Senn
2021-02-06 16:55 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:22 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 17:29 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:33 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-06 17:47 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 18:06 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2021-02-06 22:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-06 22:47 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-02-07 0:25 ` John Cowan
2021-02-08 22:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-08 22:58 ` David Barto
2021-02-08 23:01 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-07 17:43 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-07 19:28 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-07 21:32 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-07 23:17 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-07 23:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-08 0:56 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-08 5:15 ` Erik E. Fair
2021-02-08 5:33 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-08 15:54 ` Will Senn
2021-02-08 5:29 ` Doug McIntyre
2021-02-08 20:41 ` Andrew Newman
2021-02-06 18:56 ` David Barto
2021-02-08 21:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-09 16:29 ` Mary Ann Horton
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2017-04-06 2:15 [TUHS] I just noticed all the cfont aka C++ in research Jason Stevens
2017-04-06 2:20 ` Noel Hunt
2017-04-06 2:21 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-06 6:57 ` [TUHS] Unix emacs at Bell Labs and elsewhere Erik E. Fair
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