On 11/06/2015 05:25 AM, William Ray Wing wrote:
On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Larry Hudson via Python-list
wrote:
[snip]
You’re not REALLY an old timer unless you’ve used TECO.
-Bill
Agreed. I'm not really and old-timer, just old (I'm 78).
My first exposure to computers was the MITS Al
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Larry Hudson via Python-list
> wrote:
>
> On 11/05/2015 05:18 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:19:39 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
>> declaimed the following:
>>
>>> Though I used a line-editor for a while on VMS, I was never very good
>>> at i
On 2015-11-06, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:19:39 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
> declaimed the following:
>
>>Though I used a line-editor for a while on VMS, I was never very good
>>at it, and abanded it for a full-screen editor at he first
>>opportunity. But, if you ever get a
On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 19:36:11 -0800, Larry Hudson wrote:
> Anyone besides me remember the CP/M editor Mince (Mince Is Not
> Complete EMACS)? It was an emacs-like editor, without any e-Lisp or
> other way of extending it. I believe it was my first exposure to a
> screen-oriented editor. I quite l
On 11/05/2015 05:18 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:19:39 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
declaimed the following:
Though I used a line-editor for a while on VMS, I was never very good
at it, and abanded it for a full-screen editor at he first
opportunity. But, if you ever get a
On 2015-11-05, Random832 wrote:
> Grant Edwards writes:
>> On 2015-11-05, Random832 wrote:
>>> Of course, both of those things are also true of ed.
>>
>> Well, maybe not for you. I knew people who (yonks ago) used 'ed' for
>> regular file editing. And I remember using the VMS line-editor for
>
Grant Edwards writes:
> On 2015-11-05, Random832 wrote:
>> Of course, both of those things are also true of ed.
>
> Well, maybe not for you. I knew people who (yonks ago) used 'ed' for
> regular file editing. And I remember using the VMS line-editor for
> regular file editing for a couple years
On 2015-11-05, Random832 wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>> As someone who grew up on MS-DOS, I'd like to mention that EDLIN's
>> value wasn't in the obvious places. There were two features it had
>> that most other editors didn't: firstly, it would read only as much
>> of the file as it needed,
Chris Angelico writes:
> As someone who grew up on MS-DOS, I'd like to mention that EDLIN's
> value wasn't in the obvious places. There were two features it had
> that most other editors didn't: firstly, it would read only as much of
> the file as it needed, so you could edit a file larger than av
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> The point I'm so amused is, that MS has not felt the need to ship a real
> editor, and also cut back on most of the other tools that make computing,
> even on commandlines, a pleasant experience. Readline? Tab-Completion? I
> read a mag
Am 05.11.15 um 01:42 schrieb Chris Angelico:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
As someone who grew up on MS-DOS, I'd like to mention that EDLIN's
value wasn't in the obvious places. There were two features it had
that most other editors didn't: firstly, it would read on
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> Am 04.11.15 um 19:24 schrieb Ben Finney:
>>
>> The name is a mnemonic for a compound command in ‘ed’ [0], a text editor
>> that pre-dates extravagant luxuries like “presenting a full screen of
>> text at one time”.
>>
>> [... lots of f
Am 04.11.15 um 19:24 schrieb Ben Finney:
The name is a mnemonic for a compound command in ‘ed’ [0], a text editor
that pre-dates extravagant luxuries like “presenting a full screen of
text at one time”.
[... lots of fun facts ...]
Here is another fun fact: The convincing UI of ed was actually
On 2015-11-05 05:24, Ben Finney wrote:
> A very common command to issue, then, is “actually show me the line
> of text I just specified”; the ‘p’ (for “print”) command.
>
> Another very common command is “find the text matching this pattern
> and perform these commands on it”, which is ‘g’ (for “g
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2015 13:55, Dan Sommers wrote:
>
> > Its very name indicates that its default mode most certainly is
> > regular expressions.
>
> I don't even know what grep stands for.
“grep” stands for ‘g/RE/p’.
The name is a mnemonic for a compound command
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