8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
2:44 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, Thomas Paulsen wrote:
I'm sure you're right, but that wasn't the point that I was making...
-- Dave
I don't
recall the exact details, but there was once an editor called
"em" (Editor for Mortals). I remember thinking: what sort of an idiot
would call it that, with the "e" and "r" keys adjacent to each other?
I wonder how many files were lost that way...
you can download, build and use em making immediately clear that em was
much easier to use than ed. Nevertheless em was only (another) step in
between ed and vi.