I Love Ed on CP/M
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I Love Ed on CP/M
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Re: I Love Ed on CP/M
#2Surely not. Ed is diabolically horrible, it was the worst feature of CP/M. It could only be liked by someone who edits assembler in his/her head, obviously Garry Kildall fitted that mold.
Re: I Love Ed on CP/M
#3Surely not. Ed is diabolically horrible, it was the worst feature of CP/M. It could only be liked by someone who edits assembler in his/her head, obviously Garry Kildall fitted that mold.
Honestly, I really do love it. I've used plenty of other editors on CP/M and now that I've got used to ED I just don't find them as quick or often as powerful as ED. That doesn't mean that they don't have extra features that can be useful, but considering how little I use those extra features I think ED comes out in front for me. I think the accompanying video demonstrates quite well how easy it is to use.
Re: I Love Ed on CP/M
#4All is that my mother wrote her memoirs on an Amstrad and the pages came flying out. When the machine finally broke an she was compelled to buy a PC with Word to complete the book she faltered. The wysiwyg did nothing for her.
Could have been a matter of older age but I remember the same happened to data input operators at work that switched from DOS applications to mouse based programs. Productivity plummeted.
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Re: I Love Ed on CP/M
#6Surely not. Ed is diabolically horrible, it was the worst feature of CP/M. It could only be liked by someone who edits assembler in his/her head, obviously Garry Kildall fitted that mold.
Honestly, I really do love it. I've used plenty of other editors on CP/M and now that I've got used to ED I just don't find them as quick or often as powerful as ED. That doesn't mean that they don't have extra features that can be useful, but considering how little I use those extra features I think ED comes out in front for me. I think the accompanying video demonstrates quite well how easy it is to use.
You should upgrade to vi :)
Re: I Love Ed on CP/M
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, I really do love it. I've used plenty of other editors on CP/M and now that I've got used to ED I just don't find them as quick or often as powerful as ED. That doesn't mean that they don't have extra features that can be useful, but considering how little I use those extra features I think ED comes out in front for me. I think the accompanying video demonstrates quite well how easy it is to use.
You should upgrade to vi :)
It's funny that you should say that because VI/VIM, another modal editor, is my editor of choice on Linux, with JSTAR second.
However, lately I've been thinking of writing a modal editor for Linux based on CP/M's ED. I know there is ED and EX on Linux but I prefer ED on CP/M and have been wondering where I could take that idea and possibly replace some of my use of VIM.
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#8We have Ed on ICL mainframe and those that can master those commands are like god to me. Just impossible to understand.
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#9All is that my mother wrote her memoirs on an Amstrad and the pages came flying out. When the machine finally broke an she was compelled to buy a PC with Word to complete the book she faltered. The wysiwyg did nothing for her. Could have been a matter of older age but I remember the same happened to data input operators at work that switched from DOS applications to mouse based programs. Productivity plummeted.
>"All is that " = "All I know is that". Dyslexia regarding my own writing sometimes.
Re: I Love Ed on CP/M
#10Don't forget this famous joke:
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html