* Posts by Bernard Coxhead

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Stallman steps back from Emacs

Bernard Coxhead
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Other paths to nostalgia

The first editor I used was Teco on DEC PDP-11 in 1983. When I used Unix in 1989 I used vi which was hardly an improvement, and frankly I was a bit scared of the fanatics who used emacs and stayed away from it.

Nowadays if I want to be reminded of those hideous days before WYSIWYG I just open a DOS command window and use Edlin, yes it's still there even in Windows XP.

Of course real programmers just use COPY CON: