Re: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)

On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 10:28:59AM -0400, Doug McIlroy wrote: EMACS - eight megs and constantly swapping :) I like vi, there is a learning curve but what is better? I tried emacs, it was too much for my feeble brain. I used to carry around a version of xvi (a variant that did buffers so you could split the screen and see two different parts of a file or two different files). I had hacked that so it used \n as a terminator (I think I wacked things so that \n or \0 were considered terminators) and made it use mmap to look at the file. This meant I could fit a ~3MB file in the editor on a 4MB machine. It was a pretty big win at the time. Then we got more memory and then vim came along and I've never looked back. So Doug, ed? Or what? I know some people are fantastic in ed, I used to be OK especially when I was going in through a serial port but I can't see using that for serious programming these days. Maybe I'm lame. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm