Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 4 Mar 2025 22:28:27 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <1396870532.749421730.052473.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1214951717.762291306.657281.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <2069461510.762725464.185189.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1369894867.762806189.285325.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net fYBYgVGyQe1jNk6xT+8MRgOAO3GdGFDATG1IJ3xK/xWToYkP+w Cancel-Lock: sha1:efGEX7waS0gr4vRhp1RGdrzeQU4= sha256:4ex5/lnboRpWa+CpgqWJ5XYzMn9slkt7vMV1CgA6Pbw= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:230374 comp.os.linux.misc:66069 On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:44:31 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: > The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> On 04/03/2025 07:24, c186282 wrote: >>> REMOVE them from all >>>   my Linux distros so they won't accidentally come up. >> >> Sadly in my days programming *other peoples* UNIX systems for money, >> they only thing you could rely on was vi. >> >> No point in even learning EMACS if it wasn't on the system >> >> So I got good at vi. In order not to starve > > I got so I could at least use vi, because it is ubiquitous. I started off (line editors aside) with something called Perfect Writer on my first PC (compatible). It was a very detuned EMACS, with fixed bindings. I later graduated to MicroEMACS, which I still use (well, occasionally real EMACS). For ubiquitous, I fall back to the editor I learned in 1975 - ed. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org