From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editor and word processor history Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:23:54 +0100 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <87a9a16oad.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <87ha4d64r2.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87bnuho13m.fsf@debian.uxu> <874n09nz3c.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> Reply-To: glyn.millington@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401348855 25418 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2014 07:34:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 07:34:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 29 09:34:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wpuqk-0005It-Qb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 09:34:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wpuqk-0003TM-Bc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 03:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpuqU-0003TD-P4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 03:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpuqP-0006RT-Jw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 03:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58147) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpuqP-0006RP-Cs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 03:33:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WpuqN-0004mB-KA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 09:33:43 +0200 Original-Received: from cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net ([91.135.3.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 09:33:43 +0200 Original-Received: from glyn.millington by cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 09:33:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net X-Liturgical-Date: Solemnity: Ascension, A.D. 2014 X-Shakespeare: "This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war," -- King Richard II, II.1 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2gSgHds9r+A0CkOp3kFrnOmliis= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97929 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > For the Unix world, I have read there was once an > editor called ed that didn't showed the file being > manipulated at all If you are running a unix-style system, chances are that ed is still there. Try 'man ed'. Ex and vi are likely to be there too. Have you seen this? http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html atb Glyn