Re: What does “grep” stand for?

[Larry Hudson]

On 11/05/2015 05:18 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:19:39 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
> <invalid at invalid.invalid> declaimed the following:
>
>> Though I used a line-editor for a while on VMS, I was never very good
>> at it, and abanded it for a full-screen editor at he first
>> opportunity.  But, if you ever get a chance to watching somebody who
>> _is_ good at 'ed', it's something you'll remember...
>
> 	I didn't convert to EDT until DEC dropped SOS... And then shortly later
> I keymapped the Blaise ([Alcor] Pascal) editor on the TRS-80 Mod-III to
> replicate EDT (as much as possible, given only three function keys on the
> numeric pad)
>
> 	The Amiga used to have two standard editors -- a screen editor and a
> line editor; as I recall the line editor supported a file window, so one
> could edit large files by making a single direction pass using a smaller
> window and a script. Later the screen editor gained ARexx support, so one
> could script it using ARexx. (And by then they also included a form of
> microEMACS, my C compiler had a look-alike vi editor... and a later C
> compiler had another editor integrated to the compiler so that error
> message reports could trigger the editor to open the file and move to the
> error position)
>
Anyone besides me remember the CP/M editor Mince (Mince Is Not Complete EMACS)?
It was an emacs-like editor, without any e-Lisp or other way of extending it.  I believe it was 
my first exposure to a screen-oriented editor.  I quite liked it at that time (but that was a 
looonnng time ago!)

      -=- Larry -=-