16 Sep
2019
16 Sep
'19
6:26 p.m.
Clem Cole wrote:
Unix had fine tools [man(1), more(1), et al] and rms
and friends felt
the need to replace them with ITS-like programs.
Emacs and Info are rather blatantly are not anywhere near the Unix
philosophy. (Maybe they can be useful anyway.)
However, please note that more(1) also was inspired by, almost copied
from, ITS. Certainly the prompt --More-- is.