Ooh, maybe this was it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 7:20 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > I was going to say that ed(1) was from an earlier time, before the > divisions of today. > > Sometime in the early 1980s, I used a line editor on some kind of > mainframe at OSU, I think it was a Honeywell. The editor had a name like > xedit. I have gone looking for any references to it, and found nothing. As > a natural hoarder, I find this kind of historical obliteration disturbing. > Maybe this has a reference: > https://grothoff.org/christian/teaching/2009/3400/l3.pdf > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:50 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Are you trying to provoke vi versus emacs flame war Man! >> >> .. as dangerous as mentioning any file system - sure to cause long upset >> responses about benefits of ZFS. >> >> Or benefits of systemd .... >> >> I will stop short of naming any Linux distro for sure! >> >> ..... >> >> Happy last Friday - before we may be going to have a beer again. >> >> -T >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 18:18 Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> >> wrote: >> >> > As I have come to understand, the proper pronunciation of ed(1) is ee >> dee, >> > which doesn't lend itself to horse mutation as readily. It comes in >> handy >> > on hard copy terminals. In fact, it comes in pretty much essential, as >> they >> > render the immortal debate between emacs and vi entirely irrelevant. >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 07:24 Paul Heinlein <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote: >> > >> > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Russell Senior wrote: >> > > >> > > > ed >> > > >> > > That's "mister ed" to you, buddy. :-) >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Paul Heinlein >> > > heinl...@madboa.com >> > > 45°38' N, 122°6' W_______________________________________________ >> > > PLUG mailing list >> > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org >> > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PLUG mailing list >> > PLUG@pdxlinux.org >> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
