5 Nov
2022
5 Nov
'22
3:29 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 06:02:47PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Sat, Nov 05, 2022 at 11:45:26AM +1100, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
Yep, the computer lab I had to use had 30 or so terminals connected to
a VAX 11/750 running BSD. To get work done it was often neccesary to
switch to ex mode in vi. Later I was a teacher's assistent with night
access to the lab and I could use it on my own or with only a few
fellow TA's.
-Otto
A boss of mine insisted that everyone had to
learned "ed", because after a
system crash it might be the only editor available; that, or having to
dial in over a slow modem.
Same. Though vi in ex mode was also good.
I also got a little corrupted by whatever editor came with BDS C, my
.exrc looks like this:
map # :.,$
map @ :1,.
Those came from that editor, # says do whatever to the end of the file,
@ says do whatever from the top of the file to here.
map , !}fmt
This came from Udi Manber, , runs your paragraph through fmt
map!
I set shiftwidth to 4 spaces because when you have code like
if ((this big thing == that big thing) && (this other big thing) &&
(yet another big thing)) {
I use 4 spaces for what I call the continuation line. I used ^A to write
that example, why I don't like ^T is lost to me.
And yeah, I paren stuff that doesn't need to have parens, it just makes
the code more obvious.
set redraw ai aw terse
redraw I think is left over from modems, autoident because duh,
autowrite because who doesn't hack, hack, hack, ^Z, !cc? terse
because I'm not a newbie.
set sections=uhshSHNH
set paragraphs=PSPETSTEFSFEKSKECSCERSREDSDEIPNPLPPPTLABAIAELIB1B2HH
Troff.
set ts=8 sw=4
set shell=/bin/sh
set showmode
set textwidth=1000
set vb
Etc.
I've been carrying around that .exrc for around 40 years. Sheesh, I'm old.