On Jun 02 2010 11:45, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K. > > > > > > I remember when . . . > > > > > > I got nuthin'. I think my first text editor was edlin, and it *sucked*. > > > > > > . . . not counting this nifty editor I called "pencil". > > > > > > > > The phrase "son of an edlin" has happily been retired in my vocabulary for > > some time. If you're not aware of it, ed(1) is as capable or more of > > causing pain as edlin was and it's still in the FreeBSD base. > > Anybody else familiar with TECO? <*EVIL* grin> > > It could do a _LOT_ of things, but a complex command string was nearly > indistinguishable from line noise. :) > ED is the standard text editor!
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html Yes, I remember TECO -- I've used it to trash many a file. _______________________________________________ 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"
