From: zukkoshopservice <zukkoshopservice@yahoo.ca>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Updated: ed-1.6-1
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33955271.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F9A083E.4010002@etr-usa.com>
zukkoshopservice
Warren Young wrote:
>
> On 4/26/2012 2:38 AM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>> Long ago (circa 1979), and far away (Ball Labs, CO), I wrote a
>> text retrieval system in 'ed'. Shortly thereafter, I started
>> using MicroEmacs.
>
> In a recent discussion -- http://goo.gl/SYoXB -- Walter Bright mentioned
> that he still uses a customized version of MicroEmacs. He pointed out
> that he doesn't feel the need for Emacs Lisp and such, since he can just
> add the feature to the program and rebuild it.
>
> That's our Walter. :)
>
>> Now, I use TextPad. Nice, but all but dead, and only single
>> platform -- Windows -- and missing some key features.
>
> I've got a license for TextPad, too. I'm pretty sure it's the only
> dedicated text editor I've actually found useful enough relative to free
> alternatives like Vim to pay money for. (Not counting editors embedded
> in IDEs and such.) I only stopped installing it on my systems because
> of its lack of updates. I felt the need to break my dependence on it
> before I got bit by some bit rot problem.
>
>
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-23 22:44 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-23 23:17 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-23 23:45 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-04-24 10:26 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2012-04-24 14:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-24 15:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-04-24 15:46 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-25 3:16 ` Warren Young
2012-04-25 3:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-24 1:34 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-24 1:42 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-26 8:39 ` Lee D. Rothstein
2012-04-26 14:41 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-26 15:55 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-27 2:45 ` Warren Young
2012-06-03 23:53 ` zukkoshopservice [this message]
2012-06-03 23:54 ` zukkoshopservice
2012-04-25 13:42 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-25 14:08 ` Christopher Faylor
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