From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20468 invoked by alias); 3 Jun 2012 23:53:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 20460 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jun 2012 23:53:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sam.nabble.com (HELO sam.nabble.com) (216.139.236.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:53:01 +0000 Received: from telerig.nabble.com ([192.168.236.162]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SbKbU-0006NL-Ag for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:53:00 -0700 Message-ID: <33955271.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:53:00 -0000 From: zukkoshopservice To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated: ed-1.6-1 In-Reply-To: <4F9A083E.4010002@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E685C19@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <20120423231645.GA7150@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E685C1D@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <4F990995.1070807@veritech.com> <4F9A083E.4010002@etr-usa.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-q2/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/RE%3A-Updated%3A-ed-1.6-1-tp33736569p33955271.html Sent from the cygwin OT chat mailing list archive at Nabble.com.