[Info-vax] x86 Update 4/22/19

[Dave Froble]

On 4/29/2019 12:52 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:

> Not the first time I went against the grain with editors. In college, the
> engineering and CS departments pushed an editor developed locally by a professor
> there. All classes which had terminal access (we still used punched cards) taught
> the local editor in the class. Someone else got a hold of another editor, and I
> prefered it. I even got the source code and improved it somewhat. (these were all
> line mode editors, primitive even compared to EDT. The editor that came with the
> operating system (CDC NOS) was absolutely horrible, nobody used it)
>

As with many things, you'll always hear from the "neys" much more than 
from the "yeas".

I still use EDT.  Does it have some warts?  Sure enough.  But it does 
the job, and, I'm used to it.

I too have worked on editors, back in the day the company I was with 
wrote a line editor, on RSTS, in Basic+.  Simple but effective, for it's 
day.  Also had a print queue and some other tools.

The 255 char line limit can be an issue, but not for programming.  I 
never edited a file with near to 65K lines.

Just thought you could hear another "yea" ...

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