I think that there are more of us than we think its just that there are no commercial interests promoting our way of working, so we feel slightly unusual when in fact we are just doing the logical thing.
Ahhh vi. I was reading the article hoping to see mention of vi…
Emacs was cool too, but I never got hooked - was very comfortable in vi land as it was the first editor I used on the old time terminals (green/amber CRT and a keyboard you could kill with). Oh the power of vi/EMACs and regular expressions without ever lifting a finger from the keyboard!
Exactly. I well remember the green or amber 24x80 terminals. Televideo, Lear-Siegler, etc. Bundles of twisted pair cable for tty lines back to the machine room.
I think that there are more of us than we think its just that there are no commercial interests promoting our way of working, so we feel slightly unusual when in fact we are just doing the logical thing.