[TUHS] vi in cooked mode?

Rich Salz rich.salz at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 12:31:19 AEST 2022


I don't recall BDS C having an editor but I could be wrong. They pushed
Mark of the Unicorn's MINCE (mince is not complete emacs) and scribble, a
scribe mini-clone. BDS was a one man shop, it stood for brain-damaged
software.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 9:40 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 06:25:03PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > On Nov 4, 2022, at 6:02 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I also got a little corrupted by whatever editor came with BDS C
> >
> > I think that was wordstar. I had to retrain my fingers when I
> > switched to vi! I used SOS, edt(?) on Tops-10, edit(?) on CMS,
> > teco (on ITS), wordstar (on CP/M), ed, vi, rand editor, acme.
> > Now I stick to nvi & acme. And cat for small programs/files.
>
> I used wordstar but I think BDS C had their own thing.  Wordstar
> was different.
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