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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: vi in cooked mode?
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 14:34:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2asyzskfnzwaVS7@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221105014029.GH29525@mcvoy.com>

On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 06:40:29PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 06:25:03PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > On Nov 4, 2022, at 6:02 PM, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I also got a little corrupted by whatever editor came with BDS C
> > 
> > I think that was wordstar. I had to retrain my fingers when I
> > switched to vi! I used SOS, edt(?) on Tops-10, edit(?) on CMS,
> > teco (on ITS), wordstar (on CP/M), ed, vi, rand editor, acme.
> > Now I stick to nvi & acme. And cat for small programs/files.
> 
> I used wordstar but I think BDS C had their own thing.  Wordstar 
> was different.

There was also Turbo Pascal, which also had a very Wordstar-like
editor.

					- Ted
					

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-05 18:35 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
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 [this message]
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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