On Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 1:14:06 PM UTC-4, Phil Hobbs wrote:> On 2020-04-24 23:25, Les Cargill wrote: > > Phil Hobbs wrote: > >> On 2020-04-14 14:18, Rick C wrote: > >>> https://xkcd.com/378/ > >>> > >> > >> XEDIT. Followed by xx by Blair Thompson, https://www.tangbu.com. > >> > >> Of course in my day we used to defrag hard disks by editing the inodes > >> by hand, with magnets. ;) > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> Phil Hobbs > >> > > > > > > > > XEDIT. > > > > May its name be cursed :) > > > > My 28-year-old son is a confirmed VIM bigot. Editor loyalties clearly > aren't hereditary. ;) > > Cheers > > Phil HobbsNot VIM, real VI. VIM is merely a reasonable substitute on Windows platforms. Enjoy, ed
My Favorite Editor is the Butterfly, What's Yours?
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On 15/04/20 02:26, Phil Hobbs wrote:> On 2020-04-14 14:18, Rick C wrote: >> https://xkcd.com/378/ >> > > XEDIT. Followed by xx by Blair Thompson, https://www.tangbu.com. > > Of course in my day we used to defrag hard disks by editing the inodes by hand, > with magnets. ;)I never did that with hard disks, but as a 6th former I /did/ do the equivalent with paper tape using one of these: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/telex/repair/ But I only had 5 channel paper tape. I thought I'd left the abomination of letter-shift figure-shift back in the bad old days. Then android/iphone touch screens resurrected the concept :(
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On 2020-05-14 10:54, Ed Prochak wrote:> On Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 1:14:06 PM UTC-4, Phil Hobbs wrote: >> On 2020-04-24 23:25, Les Cargill wrote: >>> Phil Hobbs wrote: >>>> On 2020-04-14 14:18, Rick C wrote: >>>>> https://xkcd.com/378/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> XEDIT. Followed by xx by Blair Thompson, https://www.tangbu.com. >>>> >>>> Of course in my day we used to defrag hard disks by editing the inodes >>>> by hand, with magnets. ;)>>>> >>> > >>> >>> > XEDIT. >>> >>> May its name be cursed :) >>> >> >> My 28-year-old son is a confirmed VIM bigot. Editor loyalties clearly >> aren't hereditary. ;)> Not VIM, real VI. VIM is merely a reasonable substitute on Windows platforms. > > Enjoy, > ed >AFAIK no distro ships any VI other than VIM. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com
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On 14.5.20 18:19, Tom Gardner wrote:> On 15/04/20 02:26, Phil Hobbs wrote: >> On 2020-04-14 14:18, Rick C wrote: >>> https://xkcd.com/378/ >>> >> >> XEDIT. Followed by xx by Blair Thompson, https://www.tangbu.com. >> >> Of course in my day we used to defrag hard disks by editing the inodes >> by hand, with magnets. ;) > > I never did that with hard disks, but as a 6th former I > /did/ do the equivalent with paper tape using one of these: > https://www.cryptomuseum.com/telex/repair/ > > But I only had 5 channel paper tape. I thought I'd left > the abomination of letter-shift figure-shift back in the > bad old days. > > Then android/iphone touch screens resurrected the concept :(The repair kit is too complicated: We used plain sticky tags to connect the tape ends and punched the missing holes with the hand punch like that in the repair kit. -- -TV
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Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> writes:> AFAIK no distro ships any VI other than VIM.Distro of what? Debian Linux includes at least elvis-tiny and nvi. Personally I prefer Emacs.
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On 2020-05-14 16:18, Anssi Saari wrote:> Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> writes: > >> AFAIK no distro ships any VI other than VIM. > > Distro of what? Debian Linux includes at least elvis-tiny and nvi. > > Personally I prefer Emacs. >I misspoke mildly. Ed was wanting vanilla VI, which AFAICT nobody ships anymore. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com
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On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 4:56:12 PM UTC-4, Phil Hobbs wrote:> On 2020-05-14 16:18, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> writes: > > > >> AFAIK no distro ships any VI other than VIM. > > > > Distro of what? Debian Linux includes at least elvis-tiny and nvi. > > > > Personally I prefer Emacs. > > > > I misspoke mildly. Ed was wanting vanilla VI, which AFAICT nobody ships > anymore. > > Cheers > > Phil Hobbs >yes, and I miss it. VIM is a reasonable substitute. EMACS to me seemed like learning the piano. so many keystrokes!. Ed