[meierjo]

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!

[jes]

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.

Good times....

[makapuf]

But wasn't vi the Fancy Tool then?

[ontouchstart]

That is why I started to use ed. Much better than vi because you THINK in a buffer :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)