[TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix
Grant Taylor
gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Fri Nov 3 06:29:16 AEST 2017
On 11/01/2017 04:51 PM, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Or, if you have moved beyond the era of simulated glass
> teletypes on graphics screens, you could do the editing
> in the terminal (program).
Maybe it's my naivety, but I can't visualize the workflow using
something else. (I briefly tried finding videos to see it, but failed.)
> It's a real shame the mux/9term way of doing things never
> caught on. I suppose it is because so many people are
> wedded to programs that require cursor addressing; I'm
> glad I never succumbed to that.
I've had people tell me things about 9term, but I can't fathom what
using it would be like.
> I use ed (or its cousin qed a la Toronto) for simple stuff.
> Mostly I'll use the traditional commands, but sometimes
> I will, in mux/9term style, print a line with p, type
> c, edit the line on the screen, pick it up and send it,
> type . return.
What do you mean by "pick it up" and "send it"?
Will you please elaborate on what your day to day process (using 9term's
editing ability) is like?
> And of course I can do that sort of thing with any program,
> whether or not it is compiled with some magic library.
>
> All this is something of a matter of taste, but I have
> sometimes amazed (in a good way) my colleagues with it.
:-)
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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