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Re: Eleven years of using vim

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In article <alpine.LNX.2.02.1411052355500.18387@darkstar.example.org>,
Michael Black  <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

>I had a program for my Radio Shack COlor Computer running Microware OS-9 
>that was a variant of Vi, that was bout 1987 or 88.  I ddnt' like it, but 
>I had it.  A couple of years later, I was runing a flakey Atari ST, and 
>found Mark WIlliams C for it at a clearance, and I'm not sure what editor 
>came with that.  Maybe there were two, because I know I could use a 
>version of Emacs on it, and I remember getting a book about emacs, but 
>don't remember actually using emacs.

There was an editor called STeVIe - Which stood for ST Editor for
VI enthusiasts[1] or something like that. I ported it to a platform I
was working on ~26 years back, then used it to port emacs to the same
platform - and stuck with VI ever since...

Before that my Unix was a v6 and v7 where I used ed and something called
em - editor for mortals which was a bit ed-like, but had a command (%
iirc) that would display 10 lines above and 10 below the one you were
editing - early form of editing on glass tty's...

As well as a plethora of other editors on various other platforms I was
working with - Apple II, CP/M, Prime, BBC, early PC XT, ucsd, emas, etc,
etc, etc,

Gordon
[1] http://nosuch.com/tjt/stevie/

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  Re: Eleven years of using vim Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-11-03 13:37 +0100
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-03 14:47 +0200
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      Re: Eleven years of using vim Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-05 20:34 -0500
        Re: Eleven years of using vim gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2014-11-06 02:51 +0100
          Re: Eleven years of using vim Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-06 04:24 -0500
            Re: Eleven years of using vim gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2014-11-09 17:19 +0100
              Re: Eleven years of using vim DMcCunney <dennis.mccunney@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 13:47 -0500
                Re: Eleven years of using vim gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2014-11-10 14:26 +0100
        Re: Eleven years of using vim Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-11-05 23:58 -0500
          Re: Eleven years of using vim Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-11-06 07:27 +0000
            Re: Eleven years of using vim Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-06 09:43 +0200
              Re: Eleven years of using vim Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-11-06 08:50 +0000
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    Re: Eleven years of using vim Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-05 20:32 -0500
  Re: Eleven years of using vim Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-11-05 10:31 +0200
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-05 11:07 +0200
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Forsythe <none@example.com> - 2014-11-08 20:42 +0000

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