. make love
NOT WAR?
[4K CORE]
I’m a bizarre UNIX relic. I never learned vi. I went from “ed” to the various emacs
variants (starting with Warren Montgomery’s EMACS, then JOVE and UNIPRESS, and later GNU).
I used INed (a commercialization of the Rand editor) but didn’t particularly like that
either. My coworkers for years would be amused when if I found the machine had no EMACS
variant, I’d just use ed. I could be startlingly fast in ed and you do learn regular
expressions well if you have to do a lot of editing that way. On a few machines where
I’m confronted with VI and no ed/emacs, I just use VI in “ex” mode.
On Oct 30, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Oct 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Then the
real definition, ending in an execution of the empty `q'.
qq/4$^Ma2^[@qq
Gah. That reminds me of nothing so much as TECO (may it long Rest in Peace).
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who remembers TECO; a fun game was to type
your name at it to see what it did.
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."