From: Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com>
To: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] manual humour (was tunefs -m 5%)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:49:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMnNGg-ByEm27qiS+D9S_HwnSf2Dsb7XG8RkgnZEVb5C9Ri=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210310183733.GA14019@box.prefix.duckdns.org>
On 3/10/21, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri <andreas.kahari@abc.se> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 06:51:56PM -0500, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, Rob Pike wrote:
>>
>> > I'm curious when people (other than me) erred and stopped saying that
>> > ed
>> > was the standard editor.
>> >
>> > -rob
>> >
>>
>> I actually use that expression in somewhat unorthodox ways. ;)
>>
>> Like "CDE is the standard desktop environment like ed is the standard
>> text
>> editor." (I still consider both to be true even though about no one uses
>> either anymore.)
>>
>> -uso.
>
> Hi, I'm "about no one". I use ed(1) every once in a while, both the
> way it was supposed to be used, i.e. interactively, and occasionally
> scripted on smaller documents.
>
> I'm soon 50. Having grown up with computers, and having spent most of
> my money as a student buying the next bigger and/or faster PC, I find
> that I nowadays enjoy smaller, slower systems and simpler editors more
> and more. Getting distracted by syntax highligting, confused by too
> complicated configurations... There is a certain beauty in the editing
> language of ed(1). It's minimalistic and restrictive, and therefore
> forces you to think, to remember, and to be creative.
This comment resonates with me so much. I am enjoying these days
mostly retro systems too -- computers I grew up with. There is a
certain beauty in the term "less is more". And nothing is more
satisfying than sitting in front of a CRT terminal (either some real
terminal or PC) and working in a full screen text mode. No GUIs, no
distractions -- just pure conversation with a machine using only text.
That's UNIX for me.
These days there have been a huge resurgence of various retro
communities around the world. There are still tons of new programs
and games being published for 8-bit micro's or Amiga's. Still it
appears the Unix community in general is not part of that movement. I
think TUHS is an exception and a haven for people who just prefer the
old ways. I find Unix these days too bloated and moved away from its
main core values: simplicity and minimalism. The hardware was much
simpler too back in the days.
Long live the ed(1) and vi(1).
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-10 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 16:21 Norman Wilson
2021-03-09 20:11 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-09 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-09 20:36 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-09 22:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-09 22:46 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-09 23:51 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-10 0:01 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-10 0:13 ` Anthony Martin
2021-03-10 18:37 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2021-03-10 19:49 ` Andy Kosela [this message]
2021-03-10 20:17 ` Ken Thompson
2021-03-10 20:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-11 3:54 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-11 4:57 ` Will Senn
2021-03-10 2:34 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-03-12 2:48 ` John Cowan
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