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Good for you. In 1994 I was mainly supporting DOS, Windows for Workgroups, Novell Netware, and DEC VAX/VMS. There was no xNix of any form in the UK branch of th
by lproven 3y ago
Good for you. In 1994 I was mainly supporting DOS, Windows for Workgroups, Novell Netware, and DEC VAX/VMS. There was no xNix of any form in the UK branch of the company, and I think the HQ mainly ran on much the same stuff with some added Classic MacOS.
The point being that I learned literally dozens of editors and UIs in the 1980s and early 1990s... and then CUA came along and swept it all away, and I never looked back.
I wrote much of the original Wikipedia article on CUA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Much more recently I also wrote this:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/
I never ran Emacs, never had any reason to learn Emacs, so I never did.
I did learn WordStar, WordStar 2000 (totally different), WordStar Express (totally different again), WordPerfect, MultiMate, DisplayWrite, MS Word 4.x and the different 5.x and the different 6.x, plus WinWord 1 and the different 2, and LocoScript, and The Last Word, and Edlin, and DOS EDIT, and many many more.
I am very much not unable to learn new editors. But for over 30 years now, I haven't had to. And that's wonderful and I am absolutely not learning another new different editor now, at over half a century old.
Any editor that wants me to try it must conform 100% to the CUA standard, or it can die in a fire. Weird editor keystrokes are 1970s/1980s stuff, and keeping them 40 years is inexcusable.
- kazinator 3y agoI've also not had to learn a new editor for 30 years since switching to Vim. The core of vi is standardized in POSIX (IEEE 1003.1) https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/v... The nice thing about standards ...