Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: William Ray Wing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Re=3A_What_does_=E2=80=9Cgrep=E2=80=9D_stand_for=3F?= Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 08:25:09 -0500 Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <56397a18$0$11094$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.1 \(3096.5\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 136bdoki32EIfJQR0ctsRABjBkGUMmhlq/QOag02nZTA== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.047 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.91; '*S*': 0.00; 'compiler': 0.05; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.09; 'editor.': 0.09; '(but': 0.15; 'thu,': 0.15; 'amiga': 0.16; 'editor,': 0.16; 'edt': 0.16; 'gained': 0.16; 'position)': 0.16; 'received:10.0.1.5': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'later': 0.16; 'received:10.0.1': 0.18; 'script.': 0.18; '>>>': 0.20; '2015': 0.20; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.20; 'cc:2**1': 0.22; 'dropped': 0.22; 'keys': 0.22; 'pass': 0.22; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.22; 'dec': 0.23; 'script': 0.25; 'supported': 0.27; 'error': 0.27; '+0000': 0.27; 'received:17': 0.27; 'function': 0.28; 'editors': 0.29; 'extending': 0.29; 'larry': 0.29; 'convert': 0.29; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'somebody': 0.30; 'window': 0.30; 'anyone': 0.32; 'another': 0.32; 'included': 0.32; 'screen': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; 'open': 0.33; 'url:listinfo': 0.34; 'editor': 0.34; 'file': 0.34; 'received:10.0': 0.34; 'could': 0.35; 'besides': 0.35; 'direction': 0.35; 'nov': 0.35; 'possible,': 0.35; 'quite': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'url:org': 0.36; '(and': 0.36; 'smaller': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:10': 0.37; 'really': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'support,': 0.37; 'reports': 0.38; 'files': 0.38; "didn't": 0.39; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'header:MIME-version:1': 0.60; 'chance': 0.60; 'ever': 0.60; "you'll": 0.61; 'making': 0.62; 'complete': 0.63; 'believe': 0.66; 'python-list': 0.66; 'liked': 0.67; 'subjectcharset:utf-8': 0.71; 'shortly': 0.72; 'watching': 0.72; 'integrated': 0.72; 'to:addr:yahoo.com': 0.80; '(utc),': 0.84; 'header:In-reply-to:1': 0.84; 'window,': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'edwards': 0.91; 'you\xe2\x80\x99re': 0.91 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2015-11-06_10:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 kscore.is_bulkscore=0 kscore.compositescore=1 compositescore=0.9 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 kscore.is_spamscore=0 rbsscore=0 spamscore=0 urlsuspectscore=0.9 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1510090000 definitions=main-1511060227 In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3096.5) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:98356 > On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Larry Hudson via Python-list = wrote: >=20 > On 11/05/2015 05:18 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:19:39 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards >> declaimed the following: >>=20 >>> Though I used a line-editor for a while on VMS, I was never very = good >>> at it, and abanded it for a full-screen editor at he first >>> opportunity. But, if you ever get a chance to watching somebody who >>> _is_ good at 'ed', it's something you'll remember... >>=20 >> I didn't convert to EDT until DEC dropped SOS... And then = shortly later >> I keymapped the Blaise ([Alcor] Pascal) editor on the TRS-80 Mod-III = to >> replicate EDT (as much as possible, given only three function keys on = the >> numeric pad) >>=20 >> The Amiga used to have two standard editors -- a screen editor = and a >> line editor; as I recall the line editor supported a file window, so = one >> could edit large files by making a single direction pass using a = smaller >> window and a script. Later the screen editor gained ARexx support, so = one >> could script it using ARexx. (And by then they also included a form = of >> microEMACS, my C compiler had a look-alike vi editor... and a later C >> compiler had another editor integrated to the compiler so that error >> message reports could trigger the editor to open the file and move to = the >> error position) >>=20 > Anyone besides me remember the CP/M editor Mince (Mince Is Not = Complete EMACS)? > It was an emacs-like editor, without any e-Lisp or other way of = extending it. I believe it was my first exposure to a screen-oriented = editor. I quite liked it at that time (but that was a looonnng time = ago!) >=20 > -=3D- Larry -=3D- >=20 > --=20 > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list You=E2=80=99re not REALLY an old timer unless you=E2=80=99ve used TECO. -Bill