[TUHS] Screen editors

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Mon Jan 27 04:28:45 AEST 2020


"Jose R. Valverde via TUHS" <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:

> Talking of editors...
>
> On ancient UNIX, my editor of choice was 's' from Software Tools, its
> main advantage being that it didn't require curses.

That editor was from "A Software Tools Sampler" by Webb Miller, not
"Software Tools" by Kernighan and Plauger.

I happened to pull out my copy of that book a week or so ago. It's truly
strange looking at pre-ANSI / pre-POSIX code.

I feel like that book did not have the same sort of eternally true value
as the two Software Tools books do.

Arnold


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