7 Jan
2020
7 Jan
'20
8:38 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:31:44PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
I grew up on 4MB Suns. Emacs was "8 megs and constantly swapping".
I thought vi was fine though I did do a lot with xvi (I think that was
what it was called) and I hacked it to use mmap to look at the file.
I had to do something about strings to make that work, don't remember,
but it worked and I could vi 4MB log files and search them pretty fast.
I'm a vi guy to this day. Love it.
but???damn,
even ex/vi 3.x is huge
It was so excesssive right from the start that I refused to use it.
Sam was the first screen editor that I deemed worthwhile, and I
still use it today.