[Tfug] Holy Wars!

[Jeffry Johnston]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:12 PM, William Stott <WStott at ventanamed.com> wrote:

>  Opening a text file in edit.exe un front of your IT buddies: priceless

That's actually a pretty decent editor.  Definitely a step up from
edlin.  I used a variant of it for years in the form of Microsoft
QuickBasic Extended 7.0.  Unfortunately, the Linux console keyboard is
crippled.. can't enter all the key combos needed for selection, copy,
and paste.  It seems like it should be possible somehow, though..
since Xorg understands the key combos and its just another app.

Jeff

p.s. It's EDIT.COM ;)



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>  From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org <tfug-bounces at tfug.org>
>  To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>  Sent: Wed Mar 12 19:47:52 2008
>  Subject: Re: [Tfug] Holy Wars!
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>  Honestly, I can't tell the difference anymore in terms of speed
>  betweem emacs and what might have been traditionally considered
>  "faster" editors.  However, if you are looking for an editor that can
>  chew up your CPU, I'm sure they exist!
>
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>  On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  > --- Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:
>  >
>  >  > Lest we, for lack of history, malign the one and
>  >  > true editor:
>  >  >
>  >  > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
>  >
>  >  Under *DOS*, I fell in love with Brief (inspired by
>  >  EMACS but probably 100X faster!)
>  >
>  >  Unfortunately, Borland (Inprise?) never released
>  >  it after buying it from Solution Systems...  :<
>  >  (it has some nasty timing loops that just don't
>  >  work well on machines running 100-1000X faster
>  >  than the original machines on which it ran  :< )
>  >
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