[mythtv-users] OFF TOPIC: Text Editor(s) ?

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 04:16:05 UTC 2013


On 11/14/13 10:02 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 09:30 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Stephen P. Villano
>> <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> If one
>>> works in IT, one may well have that as the only editor on a company
>>> system
>> I guess that depends on whether or not you count sed.  ;)
>>
>
> Any Unix (and most Unix-like systems) system should have ed, since
> it's mandatory on all systems conforming to the Single Unix
> Specification.  Of course, becoming proficient with ed makes
> vi's/vim's learning curve seem simple.  (George Coulouris created an
> editor called "em" (the "editor for mortals" since ed was only
> suitable for immortals).  The "em" editor was the inspiration for Bill
> Joy's "en" (one more than "em"), which he later "ex"tended to create
> "ex", which he then redesigned to add a visual mode (aka vi).)
>
> So, maybe one may well have vi as the only /usable/ editor on a
> company system. :)
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
Usable is a relative term if there are sanity issues with one's terminal
session.
As I mentioned before, I had one embedded system that had an annoying
habit of screwing up the left side of the screen and do wonky things
under vi that rendered it quite a challenge to work with. It quite felt
like I was halfway in old DOS with edlin.
Fortunately, an update fixed that issue before I had to try
crosscompiling a better behaved vi.

Hehe, I had forgotten that story about ed/em/ex.
For the hell of it, I tried ex on my new Mythbuntu install. Vi popped up
in command mode.
Wow, I'm going to have to play with ed again, it's been ages!

Never did books in vi, but I've been known to use anything from vi to
windows notepad to write webpages. HTML editors are for wimps. ;)


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