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On 5/6/2012 4:38 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> Microsoft's edlin or Wordpad editors, but clearly somebody thought they
> were a good idea and published them despite their rather nasty UI (edlin)
> and minimal capabilities (both editors). It would be interesting to know
> what their development teams used for their everyday editing needs. After
> all both vi and emacs predate DOS and edlin by 5 or 6 years and,
> regardless of whether you love or hate their UI (which is no worse than


Just interjecting here: line editors are a much older and simpler tool 
than full screen editors.  My recollection is that traditionally when 
you are writing an OS from scratch, you build the simplest pieces first 
to get started, then more complex ones.  edlin and the Unix equivalent 
"ed" are simple line editors that don't require a working full screen 
library.  edlin was probably what MS used in the early days to bootstrap 
their development.  And if you ever found yourself with out a working 
full screen library for whatever reason (say you're working remotely on 
a teletype) you still have edlin (or ed) in your command line to 
configure a few things in the OS.