8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
6:10 a.m.
arnold(a)skeeve.com writes:
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
> I'm a vi guy to this day. Love it.
I'm a vi guy these days. My first screen editor was something called DTE
for Display Terminal Editor written by Dick Hause that ran on the Glance G
terminals hooked our Honeywell 516 running 516-TSS. I have some vague
recollection of at least one of these terminals ending up in the attic in
the UNIX room, but I don't think that the editor was ever ported. It was
painful to have to use ed or the 516-TSS equivalent when a terminal wasn't
available. Vi was an easy transition because the ed commands could be used
until the fancier stuff was learned. Also because that great vi trainer
program rogue existed :-)
Jon