On 7/20/2022 10:16 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
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On 7/20/22 07:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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> We couldn't even run vi at the time on our PDP-11/45 with 6th
Edition
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> UNIX. IIRC it was too big for the address space. I wrote my
PhD thesis
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> in Nroff using George Coulouris' em ('editor for mortals'),
the
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> precursor to ex, which eventually became vi. It had a
single-line
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> display but unlike ed you could see what you were doing.
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And because you had to do that decades ago new Linux users today
should
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be using vi instead of all the more user friendly editors
available for
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use in a terminal?
Careful there- even today, a very large number of new Linux
devices don't run a GUI at all, so a text-based editor (and knowing
how to drive it) is a necessity.
Also, I think you mean 'shell' instead of 'terminal'- a
'terminal' is an external piece of hardware that terminates a serial
line, like an ADM-3A or TVI-912C, etc. We generally haven't used
terminals since the 1980's.
;)