e2 & e3 -- were those the ones that, when you searched for a string it would draw ovals around the results? I was fond of those as well, for the limited time I had anything to do with OS/2. For a while, on our Sun systems in the late '80s but before emacs gained any popularity, we offered the RAND editor e19. It was largely function-key driven and didn't know how to use termcap, so it was a PITA to port to a new terminal, but on a VT2xx clone it was pretty nice for the time -- it was pretty easy for a non-technical user.
On a lot of platforms in the early days there weren't a lot of choices, you just used what was there. In the early '80s, I worked at some places were Wylbur was just How One Did Things; but it was actually pretty powerful. If you were working on VM/CMS you were probably editing in xedit and scripting in Rexx. And if you were working interactively on OS/MVS, the best you could hope for was probably SPF/PDF. --Bob On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Joe Landman <land...@scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > shades of editor wars from ... decades ago ... > > e2 and e3 (a programming editor at IBM TJ Watson, never made it out the > door as far as I remember, though OS2 had some build variant of it built > in), was amazing. Pretty good by todays standards. > > If I'm remote, no higher bandwidth link, I'll use vim, pico/nano, or vi. > If there is a higher bandwidth connection, I've used nedit (wrote a > thesis in an earlier version), and am largely switching to kate . I > just could never grok emacs. I could get TeX and LaTeX, and many other > arcane things. I just couldn't get my mind around emacs. Or vi for > that matter. I am ok with it, but after 20+ years using it, I am > *still* dangerous with it. I am thankful for the undo feature in vim. > > kate is the closest thing to a good editor I've used since e2. e2 just > rocked. This was 1985-ish or so, and it still was good by todays > standards. Never made it out the door though. > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics Inc. > email: land...@scalableinformatics.com > web : http://scalableinformatics.com > http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > fax : +1 866 888 3112 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
