From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 06:50:38 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: References: <20171030141645.6F81C18C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: . make love NOT WAR? [4K CORE] I’m a bizarre UNIX relic. I never learned vi. I went from “ed” to the various emacs variants (starting with Warren Montgomery’s EMACS, then JOVE and UNIPRESS, and later GNU). I used INed (a commercialization of the Rand editor) but didn’t particularly like that either. My coworkers for years would be amused when if I found the machine had no EMACS variant, I’d just use ed. I could be startlingly fast in ed and you do learn regular expressions well if you have to do a lot of editing that way. On a few machines where I’m confronted with VI and no ed/emacs, I just use VI in “ex” mode. > On Oct 30, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote: > >> > Then the real definition, ending in an execution of the empty `q'. >> > qq/4$^Ma2^[@qq >> >> Gah. That reminds me of nothing so much as TECO (may it long Rest in Peace). > > I'm glad that I'm not the only one who remembers TECO; a fun game was to type your name at it to see what it did. > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."