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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc,comp.editors
Subject: Re: TXED
Keywords: editor txed cyber
Message-ID: <1990May31.153610.13084@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 31 May 90 15:36:10 GMT
References: <30@rembrandt.UUCP> <859@halley.UUCP>
Reply-To: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
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Organization: Environment Canada
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In article <859@halley.UUCP> tjd@foghorn.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Davidson) writes:
>In article <30@rembrandt.UUCP>, jxh@rembrandt.UUCP (Jim Hickstein) writes:
>
>> Remember TXED, the nifty line-oriented editor from Columbia that ran on
>> at least NOS 1?  I have an old manual that says "D. Wolansky, [circa] 1973"
>> on it.  This was quite an editor, and had (has?) many features I miss, such
>> as the AROUND command:
>
>Small correction here. TXED was written by Dan in the early seventies. It was
>originally written for KRONOS at Sir George Williams University (later
>Concordia University), then updated to run under NOS and NOS/BE. As you
>suggest it was a very powerful editor, but alas is was line mode only. Dan
>and I studied the possibility of converting it to be screen based and
>re-entrant (no small trick for CDC NOS) but alas concluded that some other
>editors in the works (FIX/FUSE) were better. In retrospect- bad choice.
>

  So its line only D*= any comment like that.; So is sed. I'd give
anything to have my TXED on UNIX. So ER*/those negative sentiments/ go
to it. 

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Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
Analyst/Programmer         Environment Canada
    "Nobody loves me but my mother and she could be jiving too" - B.B. King