Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!tness7!tness1!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Screen editing and where it should go....
Keywords: why not put it in the terminal?
Message-ID: <1204@ficc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 21:22:15 GMT
References: <12139@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Organization: SCADA
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In article ... crm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin) writes:
> In article <1188@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > In article <8263@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> > > Terminal input editing belongs where the input is being done,
> > > namely the terminal.

> > How IBM mainframe of you. How about putting file editing in the terminal
> > as well?

> Actually, the screen editor I liked best of all editors ever was a
> probably bootlegged HP editor on the HP1000 (who remembers *that*
> machine!).

Strangely enough, I do. I remember the editor, too. You have a lot of
chutzpah to hold this old monstrosity up as a good idea.

Though the road-race game that ran in the terminal was quite a bit of
fun...
-- 
Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation, sugar!ficc!peter.
"You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?"
"Well, I couldn't afford another deLorean."
"But how do you ever get it up to 88 miles per hour????"