27 Feb
2017
27 Feb
'17
1 a.m.
On 26 February 2017 at 12:28, Andy Kosela <andy.kosela(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
Are you sure it was emacs? Most probably it was pico,
which was the default
editor for pine. We used pine/pico for all email at our university in the
90's. It was wildly popular.
Ah well, I am not sure -- that betrayed my emacs bias. I saw ^X^C and
assumed emacs.
N.
27 Feb
27 Feb
1:48 a.m.
New subject: The size of EMACS, and what hides in kLOCs
On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Nemo wrote:
On 26 February 2017 at 12:28, Andy Kosela
<andy.kosela(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
Huh. pico's exit is just ^X, not ^X^C.
-uso.
Are you sure it was emacs? Most probably it was
pico, which was the default
editor for pine. We used pine/pico for all email at our university in the
90's. It was wildly popular.
Ah well, I am not sure -- that betrayed my emacs bias. I saw ^X^C and
assumed emacs.
N.
8:26 a.m.
New subject: The size of EMACS, and what hides in kLOCs
On 26 Feb 2017 20:48 -0500, from usotsuki(a)buric.co (Steve Nickolas):
Yes. Pico and Nano have pretty much the same key bindings for
everything that both have (there may be some minor exception), and ^X
triggers an exit. If there are any unsaved changes, it will ask what
to do; hitting ^C at that point brings you right back to the editor.
Wikipedia puts Pine's birth at 1989, and public announcement in 1992,
so that would be reasonably believable with DOS boxen as terminals...
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Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se
“People who think they know everything really annoy
those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)
On 26 February
2017 at 12:28, Andy Kosela <andy.kosela(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Huh. pico's exit is just ^X, not ^X^C. Are you sure it was emacs? Most probably it was
pico, which was the default
editor for pine.
Ah well, I am not sure -- that betrayed my emacs bias. I saw ^X^C and
assumed emacs.
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