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
10:48 p.m.
Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Allison wrote:
I hate vd ... er vi. I like le myself. t.com for dos. Right now I
am using
edit in XP. It comes with windows but for some reason they don't push
80x24 text displays.
First choice when all else fails, vi.
Can't resist... really, when _ALL_ else fails, ex.
11:11 p.m.
On 11/13/2005 at 8:48 PM woodelf wrote:
I hate vd ... er vi. I like le myself. t.com for
dos. Right now I
am using
edit in XP. It comes with windows but for some reason they don't push
80x24 text displays.
I'm still using a WYSIWYG text editor that I copied from an issue of
Microcomputing. It's been modified and ported to a number of platforms;
it's very small (just shy of 12K in x86 and smaller in x80). The last
change I made to the version that I'm currently using was to support long
file names in Windoze. I''m guessing a bit, but I suspect that I've been
using it in excess of 25 years.
Cheers,
Chuck
14 Nov
14 Nov
12:43 a.m.
Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Allison wrote:
ex is in /usr/bin. When _ALL_ else fails, /usr/bin is offline. Thus,
when _ALL_ else fails, ed, which is in /bin. And don't forget about
cat and echo (also in /bin).
-Frank McConnell
First choice when all else fails, vi.
Can't resist... really, when _ALL_ else fails, ex. 
10:21 a.m.
Frank McConnell wrote:
Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Yea, you're right. The only reason I was on this at all is
because, from time to time, I have to work in OMVS under TSO
using a 3270 emulator. I just can't get vi usable in this...
environment? configuration? circumstance? whatever, so I fall
back to ex.
Allison wrote:
ex is in /usr/bin. When _ALL_ else fails, /usr/bin is offline. Thus,
when _ALL_ else fails, ed, which is in /bin. And don't forget about
cat and echo (also in /bin). First choice when all else fails, vi.
Can't resist... really, when _ALL_ else fails, ex. 
16 Nov
16 Nov
3:07 p.m.
On 14/11/05 05:43, "Frank McConnell" <fmc at reanimators.org> wrote:
ex is in /usr/bin. When _ALL_ else fails, /usr/bin is
offline. Thus,
when _ALL_ else fails, ed, which is in /bin. And don't forget about
cat and echo (also in /bin).
$gods, you've just reminded me of happy days editing BSD disklabels using ed
on ultrix.....customers used to look on in awe* :)
Cheers
A
*or was it pity...hmmm....
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