Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

Jeff Barnett wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On 5/20/2025 1:25 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2025 07:54:59 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

     Microsoft also wanted to avoid the “how do I exit vim?” meme, so it
     built its own text editor instead of relying on other available
     options.

 
I'll admit I wondered how to exit vim, or the original vi to be specific,
but that was 45 years or so ago.

Circa 1985 I discovered PC vi. Took a couple of passes to figure it out.

In the next job, I tried to use it instead of the project's editor, EDLIN.
They said it took too long to load their large MASM files. But then one could
navigate the whole file quickly, unlike EDLIN's *WAS mantra.

Then my other boss (located in Cali) told me about VEDIT. It worked well,
except for a problem with reversing the characters, which I figured out how to
avoid.

In the early 1980s (approximately when you were trapped in the vim maze)
an excited colleague told me I just had to try out some new version of
EMACS running on our PDP10 farm at ISI - I had been using some other
editor. I was having some fun figuring out a few simple commands; then I
tried to exit: ctr x, ctr q, etc. After 15 minutes I screamed for help.
I avoided EMACS after that until a few years latter when I was using the
grown up adult version integrated into the Symbolics Lisp Machine's
development environment. Life had changed for the good.

After I used PC vi for awhile, in another job I started using microEMACs.

Then came vim.

EMACS is too knuckle-busting for me.

ZZ

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