[PLUG] Joy++

[chris (fool) mccraw]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
>
> >  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
>
>    Yeah, and in the early 1960s I fed paper tape into a Burroughs
> mainframe,
> in the early 1970s I fed 80-column Hollerith cards into the IBM S/360, and
> in the
> late 1970s I used a Teletype terminal and Diablo typewriter/printer. Using
> ed is like flipping logic switches on the front of the computer to program
> it.
>
>    Now is much better. Both emacs and vi do the job; pick the one you like.
>

Just so it was clear - that was a joke posting I was reposting from
1991....not intended to start a flame war about who has the most history :)

I have both written an ed clone and used ed, but gosh, I sure enjoy using
vim and even emacs a lot more!