>
On 7/20/22 07:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > We couldn't even run vi at the time on our PDP-11/45 with 6th Edition
> > UNIX. IIRC it was too big for the address space. I wrote my PhD thesis
> > in Nroff using George Coulouris' em ('editor for mortals'), the
> > precursor to ex, which eventually became vi. It had a single-line
> > display but unlike ed you could see what you were doing.
>
> And because you had to do that decades ago new Linux users today should
> be using vi instead of all the more user friendly editors available for
> use in a terminal?
> > We couldn't even run vi at the time on our PDP-11/45 with 6th Edition
> > UNIX. IIRC it was too big for the address space. I wrote my PhD thesis
> > in Nroff using George Coulouris' em ('editor for mortals'), the
> > precursor to ex, which eventually became vi. It had a single-line
> > display but unlike ed you could see what you were doing.
>
> And because you had to do that decades ago new Linux users today should
> be using vi instead of all the more user friendly editors available for
> use in a terminal?
Careful there- even today, a very large number of new Linux devices don't run a GUI at all, so a text-based editor (and knowing how to drive it) is a necessity.
Also, I think you mean 'shell' instead of 'terminal'- a 'terminal' is an external piece of hardware that terminates a serial line, like an ADM-3A or TVI-912C, etc. We generally haven't used terminals since the 1980's.
;)
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