The very first text editor 3651

Reread what I wrote within the context of a person who is editing professional (as in key puncher or secretary). If I had to an emergency, the real work accomplished is reduced.

I grant you that SOS was awful and having to use it cut my producitivity by ~70% but I still did not have to screw around with non-qwerty keys to get the work done...as long as I didn't have to deal with unprintable character modifications.

Exactly. and this makes getting regular editing work done impossible.

Sigh! Read the keypunchers stories that Chalie wrote up. Editing is a special form of data entry. If the data enterer has to be constantly programming the keystrokes or prefacing each keystroke with a microsecond of brain power, thruput goes down to nothing. Real pros have learned how to do data entry without thinking. The red flag of exceptions has to be rare, not commonplace in that job.

There are times when I wish were the god and could measure how much developer time was wasted because they spent it on wrestling with an editor. Any editor that requires extra keystores to get something done is verbose.

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