Hi, On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:20:19 +0800, Erich Dollansky <er...@apsara.com.sg> wrote: > >On 25 June 2009 pm 19:13:14 Konrad Heuer wrote: > >> Maybe you're right, maybe not. > >> > >> 20 years ago, I've written and edited voluminous fortran > >> code on a silly rs232 terminal using ed. So, it is possible, > >> and one > > > > I do not believe you. This must have been 30 years back. > > As far as 16 years back, VT220/VT320 terminals were in wide use > in universities. Some of us learned our first regexp stuff by
not only there, but ed was not the editor of choice even those days anymore. > reading the source of ed(1) and typing small programs in those > terminals. vi(1) was available for a long time before 1993, > but this doesn't mean other editors had died out by then :) If I remember right, I used something like ed only in the Seventies. A collegue programmed then even a WordStar clone for RSX to have a nice editor. Of course, only for VT-100 Terminals. Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
