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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

2018-03-20 05:15:09
Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
So ... I guess programs would look at the terminal and if your speed was
9600 baud or greater, you'd use VISUAL, and if it was slower you'd use
EDITOR?  I could believe that (although from memory I don't recall vi
being that bad at 2400 baud, but it was a while ago!).

Speed wasn’t the only thing, remember. I certainly used a
hardcopy terminal in 1979, probably later (not connected to a
Unix system, but still), and neither vi nor emacs would have
been a good choice :-)


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Jón Fairbairn                                 
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