[TUHS] vi in cooked mode?

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Sun Nov 6 04:34:51 AEST 2022


On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 06:40:29PM -0700, Larry McVoy 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.

There was also Turbo Pascal, which also had a very Wordstar-like
editor.

					- Ted
					


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