From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10974 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2012 02:45:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 10942 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Apr 2012 02:45:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:45:33 +0000 Received: (qmail 96982 invoked by uid 13447); 27 Apr 2012 02:45:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([71.33.33.196]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Apr 2012 02:45:33 -0000 Message-ID: <4F9A083E.4010002@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:45:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Updated: ed-1.6-1 References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E685C19@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <20120423231645.GA7150@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E685C1D@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <4F990995.1070807@veritech.com> In-Reply-To: <4F990995.1070807@veritech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00023.txt.bz2 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.