23 Oct
2015
23 Oct
'15
4:41 p.m.
Don't get me wrong... Emacs isn't a bad OS... Too bad there isn't a decent
text editor for it.?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Date: 10/23/2015 4:29 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: The Internet & our hobby
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
I'd expect wide-eyed stares from a vi user... ;-)
Q: What goes "beep beep beep"?
A: A Little Nash Rambler... and a vi novice.
-ethan
While I won't try to claim that the FIRST or SECOND
emails were flames, I'm inclined to think that they
started early.? 'course in our day, we were much more
polite in how we flamed
Emacs?? You _MUST_ be kidding. 
23 Oct
23 Oct
6:22 p.m.
>>>
Don't get me wrong... Emacs
isn't a bad OS... Too bad there isn't a decent text editor for it.?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
<<<<
Ah, but nowadays who cares about
"Eight Megabytes and Continual Swapping"
(well, the first part anyhow) when your phone has 16GB
Andy
7 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:22:42PM +0000, ANDY HOLT wrote:
I have fond memories of our Unix sys admin refusing to install a bloated
editor.
vi on a PDP-11/45 (v7 Unix)
>>>
Don't get me wrong... Emacs isn't a bad OS... Too bad there isn't a
decent text editor for it.?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
<<<<
Ah, but nowadays who cares about
"Eight Megabytes and Continual Swapping"
(well, the first part anyhow) when your phone has 16GB
Andy
Diane
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7:38 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Diane
Bruce
Sent: 24 October 2015 00:01
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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Subject: Re: The Internet & our hobby
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:22:42PM +0000, ANDY HOLT wrote:
My favourite comment on VI was one made by Eric Thomas on VMShare many
years
ago...
.. it starts ...
Append on 08/26/92 at 11:03 by Eric Thomas <ERIC at SEARN.SUNET.SE>:
biff is what you use to tell unix whether you want to be told about new
incoming mail messages. The command is named after the dog of the person
who wrote it, which was unique in that it barked whenever the mailman put
something in the mailbox. vi stands for visual display editor, I
guess because it is unique in that it shows you the file visually, rather
than by morse code on the terminal bell. vi works this way: one page of
the file is displayed and the cursor is placed on the lower left corner.
You can conveniently move the cursor with the h, j, k and l keys, which
go respectively left, down, up and right....
You can read more here...
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=TOOLKIT&ft=MEMO&args=biff#h…
>>>
Don't get me wrong... Emacs isn't a bad OS... Too bad there
isn't a
decent text editor for it.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone <<<<
Ah, but nowadays who cares about
"Eight Megabytes and Continual Swapping"
(well, the first part anyhow) when your phone has 16GB
I have fond memories of our Unix sys admin refusing to install a bloated
editor.
vi on a PDP-11/45 (v7 Unix)
Andy
Diane
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7:46 p.m.
On 24/10/2015 00:00, Diane Bruce wrote:
I have fond memories of our Unix sys admin refusing to
install a bloated
editor.
vi on a PDP-11/45 (v7 Unix)
Ah yes, I remember similar issues. If you try to run vi (and some other
things) under 7th Edition set up for a machine like the 11/23, it
responds "Not, as yet, available for a small machine." The wording may
be particular to certain 7th Ed distributions but the puport is common.
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull
24 Oct
24 Oct
2:58 a.m.
On 2015-10-24 00:22, ANDY HOLT wrote:
You people are confusing Emacs with the recent GNU Emacs... :-)
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>>>
Don't get me wrong... Emacs isn't a bad OS... Too bad there isn't a
decent text editor for it.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
<<<<
Ah, but nowadays who cares about
"Eight Megabytes and Continual Swapping"
(well, the first part anyhow) when your phone has 16GB
8:10 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 08:58:58AM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-10-24 00:22, ANDY HOLT wrote:
You people are confusing Emacs with the recent GNU Emacs... :-)
Johnny
You mean the TECO macro? I remember that.
>>>
Don't get me wrong... Emacs isn't a bad OS... Too bad there
isn't a decent text editor for it.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
<<<<
Ah, but nowadays who cares about
"Eight Megabytes and Continual Swapping"
(well, the first part anyhow) when your phone has 16GB
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
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