18 Jul
2025
18 Jul
'25
10:46 a.m.
Once when I saw the Lisp machine EMACS help list scroll by, replete
with a "call elevator" command, I innocently asked how many commands
there were. I expected a prompt answer akin to help|wc. It actually
took two experts several minutes to come up with a way to count those
lines.
Doug
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I often think about the old ad from Symbolics touting EMACS's "over 400 easy to
use commands."
-ro
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu>
wrote:
>
> I always recoiled from vi's plethora of commands. Then came sam, and I
> haven't looked back since. It handles multiple windows with barely
> more commands than ed, real regular expressions, good mouse support,
> and great global editing capability. It can even run by script without
> a screen.
>
> Doug