From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: 43633@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#43633: 28.0.50; Include definitions in glossary for: extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:50:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878scrjnji.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200930111528.GF31048@protected.rcdrun.com> (Jean Louis's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:15:28 +0300")
> If I wish to edit with "ed" I would say:
>
> $ ed file
>
> but then nothing would happen, nothing would be displayed. I would
> need to do something like:
>
> i
> New line written here
> .
> w
> 22
> q
>
> then the line "New line written here" would be in the file, as I saved
> it with "w" for 22 bytes, and quit with "q"
Indeed, and 'ed' is still relevant today on minimized distributions
where only 'ed' is available for editing (that even don't provide 'vi').
> Thus "real time display" editor is (probably) comparison to line
> editors. This comparison was useful back in time, today it is hard to
> explain to people.
Emacs can't be described as "real-time" because it doesn't meet the demands of
real-time systems according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
that at least require deterministic garbage collection.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-30 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-26 17:06 bug#43633: 28.0.50; Include definitions in glossary for: extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor Jean Louis
2020-09-26 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-26 20:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-27 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 2:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27 4:42 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-28 3:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28 4:57 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-30 11:15 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-30 18:50 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2020-10-01 5:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-02 3:51 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 9:31 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-27 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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