Comments by "" (@dingokidneys) on "Ed Is The Standard Text Editor For Unix/Linux" video.

  1. My first line editor - after the punch cards - was I think 'ed'; Yr 11 at high school, 1977. Later in the days of MS-DOS 2.0+ I learned 'edlin' which was essentially a DOS port of 'ed' and I wrote all my batch scripts and basic 16 bit C code in 'edlin'. My first 'screen' editor was actually a DOS port of 'vi' and that was so great to use after making do with 'edlin'. When I first used Linux in the mid 1990's, I felt at home in 'vim'. Never did properly learn to use EMACS, though another DOS editor I used for work seemed based on it. These days, I just use vim everywhere. It's pretty hard coded into the muscle memory.
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