Found my favorite DOS editor

Adrian Graham binarydinosaurs at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 17:16:11 CDT 2021



> On 28 Sep 2021, at 23:13, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 9/28/21 3:02 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
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>> On 9/28/2021 2:48 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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>>>> "I've been using vi for about two years, mostly because I can't figure out
>>>> how to exit it."
>>> 
>>> :q
>>> 
>>> you're welcome
>>> 
>> Or having to power cycle the machine to get out of EMACS.
> 
> Why would you ever want to get out of EMACS?  ;-)

For some reason it’s embedded in my cranium that to exit TECO it’s CTRL-C <ESC><ESC>. No idea why I remember that since I’ve not used TECO since the 80s, and only then out of curiosity.

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