4 Nov
2022
4 Nov
'22
7:33 p.m.
v6 vs v7 PDP-11 vs Vax much less vi vs emacs.
Amusingly, as weith many of us, I got my start with "ed." I never
actually learned vi. By the time I was ready to move up to screen
editors, the emacs-ish things were available to me.
I did a small stint using INed (Rand-editor variant) at one job.
My employees always found it amusing that if I was stuck on a machine
that didn't have some emacs-ish thing, I just used ed. They marvelled
at my ability to complex substitutions with the s/// regular
expressions.