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Re: Updated: ed-1.6-1
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Warren Young wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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