9 Jan
2020
9 Jan
'20
2:30 p.m.
Mary Ann Horton <mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote:
Nearly everyone at Bell Labs (outside area 11) was
using either vi or
emacs, but System III just had ed. There was a big push to add vi or
emacs to UNIX 3.0 (System III), but USG instead chose to write se, the
"screen editor" and put it in UNIX 4.0. Nobody would use it, so UNIX 5.0
(System V) relented and included vi.
Thanks for confirming that se existed in Unix 4.0, as I remember it.
I used it some; the only thing I remember about it was that the command
line was at the top of the screen.
I must have been disappointed with it, because I ended up doing most
of my contract programming work in ed. :-)
It'd be interesting to see the source for this 'se', but it's
probably
lost forever.
Arnold