I spent years working in field service, and this was a conversation I had multiple times per day...
Me: Silently types 'vi <blah>' or 'edlin <blah>' depending on the platform Client: Wow you still use <insert name here> - You should use Qedit12005b its the best! me: But the next client I visit won't have Qedit12005b, so I would have to install it. Client: ......... Got monotonous after a bit. Kindest regards, Doug Jackson On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 13:58, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 9/28/21 8:37 PM, John Herron via cctalk wrote: > > For those of you who wrote your own editors. How did you display special > > ASCII characters? Years ago, In highschool I tried writing a hex editor > (in > > qbasic so this may have been the problem) but when display anything that > > had a function like chr 07 it would activate instead of display. I gave > up > > since I couldn't figure it out other than writing directly to video > memory. > > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 8:13 PM Van Snyder via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > > wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 15:49 -0700, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: > >>> Since EMACS has a full programming language (elisp), you can write > >>> anything you want in it (mail readers, browsers, calendar apps, other > >>> editors, etc) > >> > >> Years ago, one of my colleagues showed me a pocket reference card > >> jesting about "hello world." > >> > >> At the end of the description of "GNU hello" was a remark "and like any > >> self-respecting program, it has a built-in mail reader." > > Mine was in assembly and Ctrol-V signified a literal character, no > matter what it was. Wordstar has a similar feature, IIRC. > > Of course, all of the I/O string handling was count+data, not "delimeted > by null", so that made it easier. > > --Chuck > >