[TUHS] screen editors

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, Thomas Paulsen wrote:

>> I don't recall the exact details, but there was once an editor called 
>> "em" (Editor for Mortals).  I remember thinking: what sort of an idiot 
>> would call it that, with the "e" and "r" keys adjacent to each other? 
>> I wonder how many files were lost that way...
> 
> you can download, build and use em making immediately clear that em was 
> much easier to use than ed. Nevertheless em was only (another) step in 
> between ed and vi.

I'm sure you're right, but that wasn't the point that I was making...

-- Dave