Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!217.188.199.168.MISMATCH!takemy.news.telefonica.de!feedme.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Date: 27 Aug 2015 06:53:02 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <13447b7b-2d02-418c-8f04-7b9058c326a2@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 02AGuD0iyPi3i35TuZobsARjJwZOAJSRhaMGHSnn+ZYDMBrmqP Cancel-Lock: sha1:2ymNqBZ0BLExM3gv3a2gtA4OXG4= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:150547 On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:55:56 -0500, Dave Garland wrote: > On 8/26/2015 8:13 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2015-08-26, Bob Eager wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:58:06 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: >>> >>>> I remember edlin. I was very pleased with it. >>> >>> EDLIN was a backwards step compared to TECO. Although some might >>> disagree. >> >> EDLIN was enough like CP/M's editor to get you started quickly, while >> being different enough that you'd shoot yourself in the foot. >> >> > A lot of CP/M people (well, me) just used WordStar in "Nondoc" mode. I > don't think I've used any text editor since that allowed you to perform > block operations on any arbitrary rectangle of data (i.e. from X1,Y1 to > X2,Y2), which was occasionally useful. I did actually pay a shareware fee for one - I used the OS/2 version. I think it was called the 'Technical Editor'. That facility (Block) was very useful at times. I think I even got the source.