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I've been using Emacs since 1979. I still don't know vi, and have no desire to learn (I can putter around in it, but it's . . . irritating). For short editing t
by kabdib 8y ago
I've been using Emacs since 1979. I still don't know vi, and have no desire to learn (I can putter around in it, but it's . . . irritating). For short editing tasks on systems that don't have Emacs (or a sane clone of it) installed, I'll use ed before I'll use vi.
Back in the day, it's amazing how much code one could write in these relatively primitive line-oriented editors (ed on Unix systems, editors like SOS and EDT on DEC operating systems, and so on).
- Koshkin 8y ago> it's amazing how much code one could write in these E.g. the entire UNIX (including the userland).
- kabdib 8y agoYou can comfortably read and comprehend the Unix v6 kernel source code in a day or two. The printed form of Lyons Notes is about half a centimeter thick, maybe 150 pages. Machines were smaller then, too. 64K of code on a PDP-11, small ROMs (hundreds of KB) for the larger embedded systems. My belabored point: Systems were smaller. There was a lot less typing involved :-)
- znpy 8y agoI would really appreciate reading stories from that time (1979). Have you got a blog with your memories or something?
- kabdib 8y agoFWIW, here's one of my more popular posts: http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=987 http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=987 There are a bunch more, but nothing that really covers my early experience with Unix. Something about "common tools of the late 1970s line-oriented computing environments" might be an interesting subject, we'll see . . .