James Silverton wrote:
> Michael wrote on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:43:53 +0200:
>
>> James Silverton wrote:
>>> sf wrote on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:39:34 -0700:
>>>
>>>>> Remember DOS commands?
>>>
>> DOS ? Latecomer.
>> Unix, CP/M, VAX/VMS, ....
>
>>>> Vaguely... but I sure do remember F keys. UGH. I'm so glad
>>>> those days are long gone.
>>>
>>> You will start me reminiscing about the text editors of days gone by
>>> with their non-mnemonic chorded keys. Ah, the first
>>> Word Perfect, Leading Edge Word Processor, Word Star,
>>> Scripsit and all those wonderful programs!
>
>> The joys of vi and emacs come to mind ...
>
> I used them both quite a lot but never composed anything like a business
> letter with them. The first Linux program that I used and would call a
> text editor was ApiWord (name?)

I used emacs to generate a formular for letters.
And vi for writing C - Code and Assembler.
Those old vi versus emacs wars; gone like the Atari versus
Commodore wars.
Good times ...

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner