* [TUHS] upwards from ed (was: End of an era: the last ATC)
@ 2025-07-18 2:02 Douglas McIlroy
2025-07-18 5:07 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
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From: Douglas McIlroy @ 2025-07-18 2:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I always recoiled from vi's plethora of commands. Then came sam, and I
haven't looked back since. It handles multiple windows with barely
more commands than ed, real regular expressions, good mouse support,
and great global editing capability. It can even run by script without
a screen.
Doug
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* [TUHS] Re: upwards from ed (was: End of an era: the last ATC)
2025-07-18 2:02 [TUHS] upwards from ed (was: End of an era: the last ATC) Douglas McIlroy
@ 2025-07-18 5:07 ` Rob Pike
2025-07-18 10:46 ` Douglas McIlroy
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From: Rob Pike @ 2025-07-18 5:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Douglas McIlroy; +Cc: TUHS main list
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I often think about the old ad from Symbolics touting EMACS's "over 400
easy to use commands."
-ro
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> I always recoiled from vi's plethora of commands. Then came sam, and I
> haven't looked back since. It handles multiple windows with barely
> more commands than ed, real regular expressions, good mouse support,
> and great global editing capability. It can even run by script without
> a screen.
>
> Doug
>
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* [TUHS] Re: upwards from ed (was: End of an era: the last ATC)
2025-07-18 5:07 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
@ 2025-07-18 10:46 ` Douglas McIlroy
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From: Douglas McIlroy @ 2025-07-18 10:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rob Pike; +Cc: TUHS main list
Once when I saw the Lisp machine EMACS help list scroll by, replete
with a "call elevator" command, I innocently asked how many commands
there were. I expected a prompt answer akin to help|wc. It actually
took two experts several minutes to come up with a way to count those
lines.
Doug
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I often think about the old ad from Symbolics touting EMACS's "over 400 easy to use commands."
>
> -ro
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I always recoiled from vi's plethora of commands. Then came sam, and I
>> haven't looked back since. It handles multiple windows with barely
>> more commands than ed, real regular expressions, good mouse support,
>> and great global editing capability. It can even run by script without
>> a screen.
>>
>> Doug
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