On 2021-02-17, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 17/02/2021 10:20, druck wrote:
>
>> On 16/02/2021 19:15, TimS wrote:
>>
>>> Even vi has a manual that is 127 pages long. A *manual*? For a fucking
>>> *editor*? What are these guys smoking?
>>
>> That's because it's an enormously powerful text manipulation program,
>
> because it hasn't got a gui, it needs to be. Remember Vi was first
> written for teletypes. You know. Go to line 32 and replace 'grsx' with
> 'grrr'
>
> you used it with a heavily marked up printout of your source code and
> the errors coming out of the compilers.
>
> At te days end you submitted your code and et operators would print it
> out and try and compile it again
>
> My first simple FORTRAN program took 12 weeks to write and debug

A lot of people forget (or never knew) what things were like back then.

>> and not just a text box with a cursor like Notepad.
>
> Nothing wrong with notepad

Unless you're doing a big search/replace.  Make sure you have
something else to do in the meantime...

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