Novice Editor (Re: Novice email??)

[Peter Deutsch]

In article <1990Apr30.141137.1011 at ednor.bbc.com>, ejg at ednor.bbc.com (Ed Gaudet) writes:
> In article <D613G_Exds13 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >> > Anyone have a simple user-friendly editor for UNIX? Prefereably something
> >> > that has a line-mode as well as a screen mode, for the times when line noise
> >> > is overpowering?
> >
> >> Hmmm. *boy* does that sound like vi. :-)
> >
> >Laffa while you can, monkey boy. :->
> >
> >Seriously, though, this isn't for programmers. This is for folks in the

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Here's what you want! This was posted to
alt.folklore.computers and describes the perfect
beginners' editor. Not big deal, just show them their
data! And in a universal format, to boot!

So how about it. Who's going to implement "029"? And what
about the follow-on, "129" (with editing facilities only
dreamed about by users of "029"!?!


I'd buy it....


				- peterd


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> The point being, DD cards were loathsome things so making a Unix
> command with that name was black humor.

Someone at UCLA actually wrote a replacement for /bin/sh (for a version
7 Unix, I think) which interpreted JCL.  For instance, you had to type

	//SYSIN DD *

in order to get a program's stdin to be the terminal.

He (or a co-conspirator) also had written an editor to replace "ed",
called "029".  As you typed, the "card" scrolled to the left (just like
a card does in the real 029) and the proper holes appeared in the
appropriate column .   I think he had even gotten a DUP function to
work before giving up on the project.
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