The very first text editor 3663

(Roland Hutchinson) writes:

I get sick just thinking about it. But to go back far enough to qualify for this newsgroup, I remember moving from CP-M's ED to the MS-DOS counterpart (EDIT?). It was just enough like ED to make you feel at home, and just different enough to ensure that you'd hurt yourself on a regular basis. Things have just gone downhill from there.

Nowadays, if I need to do editing on an MS-DOS or Windows system, I use KEDIT. It's not perfect, but I've learned to live with it. And I've learned enough of vi that when I switch from a Linux box to a DOS-Windows box, I'll often see a line of j's appear on the screen if I'm trying to move down in a file.

Still, when it comes to editor choices, IMHO nothing beats CygnusEd on my Amiga. Unfortunately, I doubt I'll see a port to any other OS. Maybe it's time to look into the Amiga emulators that are out there...

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