On May 9, 2018 9:11:49 AM EDT, David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
The article described the move as a step backwards. Best quote from
On 09/05/18 07:51 AM, Russell via talk wrote: the comments.
"On a mechanical typewriter when you pull the lever you get an LF
first then a CR. So Windows is already backwards."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/notepad-gets-a-major-upgrade-now-doe...
If I remember correctly from the 11-780 days, when I hit return the cursor went to the left edge of the stream, and when the shell finished
launching the command I'd typed, it went to the next line.
When it was slow, you knew that it was taking time loading. For example, if you just told it to load emacs (;-))
By the time I was using emacs, mostly for dssl and xslt validation, somebody had written viper-mode macros to make it vi like. Saved your pinky and kept all the list processing macros. I'll bet the wait was better than trying to use ed and ex.
--dave
-- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain
-- Russell