Re: What does “grep” stand for?

[William Ray Wing]

> On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Larry Hudson via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 -=-
> 
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-Bill