Re: Updated: ed-1.6-1

[Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>]

On 4/26/2012 2:38 AM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> Long ago (circa 1979), and far away (Ball Labs, CO), I wrote a
> text retrieval system in 'ed'. Shortly thereafter, I started
> using MicroEmacs.

In a recent discussion -- http://goo.gl/SYoXB -- Walter Bright mentioned 
that he still uses a customized version of MicroEmacs.  He pointed out 
that he doesn't feel the need for Emacs Lisp and such, since he can just 
add the feature to the program and rebuild it.

That's our Walter. :)

> Now, I use TextPad. Nice, but all but dead, and only single
> platform -- Windows -- and missing some key features.

I've got a license for TextPad, too.  I'm pretty sure it's the only 
dedicated text editor I've actually found useful enough relative to free 
alternatives like Vim to pay money for.  (Not counting editors embedded 
in IDEs and such.)  I only stopped installing it on my systems because 
of its lack of updates.  I felt the need to break my dependence on it 
before I got bit by some bit rot problem.