> On 20 Jul 2022, at 18:09, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 7/19/22 11:03, R. G. Newbury wrote: >>> But I definitely didn't use vim, I used emacs :-). >> Heretic! Unclean! Unclean! > > I've never understood why so many people worship vi. If I need to edit a file in a terminal, I use Mork's Editor. At Berkeley university they liked emacs but on the VAX 11/780 only one user could be supported on BSD. The problem was found to be the I/O rate from single char input and echoing. In response to the need to support 30 students on the VAX they needed to drop the I/O rate. This resulted in VI and matching kernel terminal ioctl changes to allow lines of text to be input as a single I/O. There is a usenix paper that describes this in detail that came out a long long time ago. Now you have an army of graduates that know VI and use it at work. The rest is history… But when I worked at DEC we used Goslings emacs on VMS and had enough hardware to support emacs. I still maintain it as Barry’s Emacs. Barry > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
