13 Nov
2005
13 Nov
'05
9:43 p.m.
Subject: Re: Ultrix for DECstations
From: Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:31:19 +0800
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
On 11/14/05, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
Anyone ever do a wintel editor (NOT WORD) that had a single key for advance
cursor one word?
Well back then, whenever I was away from my VAXcluster, and was forced
to use MS-DOS for something or another I used to use something called
"sedt" (nicknamed "sad editor") which was a EDT clone on DOS. Anybody
remembered that?
I may still have it. Didn't like it and it had "issues".
As fro a single key cursor advance command, there's
always the
plethora of vi clones (elvis, vim, etc.) for Wintel...
First choice when all else fails, vi.
Heck, in fact for those masochists there's a
version of teco (yes the
one which you used on the PDP-8!) for *NIX written in 'C'! :-) If you
used it often enough you may even be pissed off enough to reinvent
emacs again!
VTECO was a nice thing. EMACS was not.
My favorite for the CP/M world is VEDIT which was configurable video
editor with a drop to command (like vi) that understood TECO command
there. Very small too.
Allison