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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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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-03 23:53 UTC|newest]

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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