From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: vi in cooked mode?
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 19:42:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2WjV/RuqqoW7OFL@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <embfcc1a1d-6a12-4624-a085-f72b735d257b@820bff6f.com>
On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 06:33:34PM +0000, Ron Natalie wrote:
> >
> > v6 vs v7 PDP-11 vs Vax much less vi vs emacs.
>
> Amusingly, as weith many of us, I got my start with "ed." I never actually
> learned vi. By the time I was ready to move up to screen editors, the
> emacs-ish things were available to me.
Yeah, same here, although my start was with the editor that came with
the PDP-8 disk operating system (using an ASR-35), the PDP-15's
foreground/background system (using a KSR-33), and the PDP-11's RT-11
running under TSX-plus (using VT-100's and DECwriter for the
console).
So when I finally got a chance to use Unix when I got to college,
/bin/ed was so similar to the line oriented editors I had used on the
various Digital systems I had a chance to use while growing up and in
high school, I never bothered to use vi. It was either ed or emacs,
depending on how loaded the time-sharing systems I was using my
freshman year. Of course, once I had a chance to use a Vaxstation or
the IBM PC/RT all to myself, I jumped over to emacs and never looked
back --- except when I was recovering a system in single user mode, of
course.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-04 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-03 19:43 [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2022-11-03 20:26 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2022-11-03 20:27 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 20:55 ` Warner Losh
2022-11-03 21:34 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 22:28 ` Warner Losh
2022-11-03 22:52 ` Ron Natalie
2022-11-04 6:43 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-11-04 15:18 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-04 17:54 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-11-04 18:33 ` Ron Natalie
2022-11-04 23:42 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2022-11-05 0:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-05 1:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-05 1:25 ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-05 1:40 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-05 2:31 ` Rich Salz
2022-11-05 3:44 ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-05 18:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-11-05 9:29 ` Otto Moerbeek via TUHS
2022-11-04 22:13 ` Mary Ann Horton
2022-11-03 20:17 Noel Chiappa
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