[Novalug] Sept Meeting

Ludwig Goon lagoon7@gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 07:02:00 EDT 2016


If you haven't found a moderator for the event. I will do so. I love text
editors. Like most I've been using them since the early 1990s. (Some people
used them even before that!)

#ALLEDITORSMATTER



On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Jon LaBadie via Novalug <
novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 04:34:10PM -0400, Michael Henry via Novalug wrote:
> > On 08/27/2016 01:56 PM, Jon LaBadie via Novalug wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 01:14:19PM -0400, Stuart Gathman via Novalug
> > wrote:
> > >> On 08/26/2016 04:36 PM, greg pryzby via Novalug wrote:
> > >>> Is someone willing to lead/moderate/organize the discussion around
> > editors?
> > >> We have two major parties:
> > >>
> > > ...
> > >>
> > >> Are we gonna vote on which Editor is the One True Editor?
> > >>
> > > As I never make misteaks I creat my text files with
> > >
> > >    cat > {filename}
> > >
> > > jon
> >
> > On a Linux mailing list, you can't leave out Ed, the Standard
> > Editor:
> > https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
> >
> > Replicated below for those who don't wish to click on URLs:
> > """
> > From: patl@athena.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)
> > Subject: The True Path (long)
> > Date: 11 Jul 91 03:17:31 GMT
> > Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs,alt.slack
> >
> > When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
> > *and* Emacs are just too damn slow.  They print useless messages like,
> > 'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'.  So I use the editor
> > that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.
> >
> > Ed, man!  !man ed
> >
> > ED(1)               UNIX Programmer's Manual                ED(1)
> >
> > NAME
> >      ed - text editor
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> >      ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
> > DESCRIPTION
> >      Ed is the standard text editor.
> > ---
> >
> <fun comments snipped>
>
> You forgot how well it works on hardcopy terminals.
> Did you ever try to use emacs or vi on a Teletype machine?
> It takes forever to update a page at 10 chars/sec.
>
> ED is the standard text editor!
>
> jl
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