Ultrix for DECstations

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Ultrix for DECstations
>   From: Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia at gmail.com>
>   Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:31:19 +0800
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 11/14/05, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>> >
>>
>> Anyone ever do a wintel editor (NOT WORD) that had a single key for advance
>> cursor one word?
>>
>
>Well back then, whenever I was away from my VAXcluster, and was forced
>to use MS-DOS for something or another I used to use something called
>"sedt" (nicknamed "sad editor") which was a EDT clone on DOS. Anybody
>remembered that?

I may still have it.  Didn't like it and it had "issues".

>As fro a single key cursor advance command, there's always the
>plethora of vi clones (elvis, vim, etc.) for Wintel...

First choice when all else fails, vi.

>Heck, in fact for those masochists there's a version of teco (yes the
>one which you used on the PDP-8!) for *NIX written in 'C'! :-) If you
>used it often enough you may even be pissed off enough to reinvent
>emacs again!

VTECO was a nice thing.  EMACS was not.

My favorite for the CP/M world is VEDIT which was configurable video 
editor with a drop to command (like vi) that understood TECO command
there. Very small too. 


Allison