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The problem I had was that I started thinking about the video TECOs that drew everything in core. In these cases, the N and S search were almost functionally identical.
Oh, good. :-) Now I don't have to try to write again.
Huh? What do you mean by copyediting?
As long as it was a terminal. There was a possibility that you were actually doing the edit running on your "terminal" rather than doing the edit running under the critter you called on the phone.
snip I was thinking of editing text in general rather than just code, so "copyediting" means correcting...
Or you thought you did and it was a typo. I'm a firm believer in programs echoing all typed characters when it's possible.
It may be a mystery of our lives forever.
Yep.
Doesn't matter. I firmly believe in following the custom and letting it "creep" into everything else. If what you use and write is a useful good thing, people will copy it into their stuff. How do you think things look similar? Bit god A created a useful thingie. He showed it or gave it to Bit god B who then put it into his stuff which was delivered to 1000 bit gods who...etc. And then there were the bit gods who moved from one OS development project to another OS development project and carried his tools with him. That's one of the reasons DEC's OSes were consistent.
When I worked in Tape Prep we did that kind of editing, too. A file is a file is a file. We didn't care what the guy or gal...
When I was handed a project that needed me to work on some other kind of OS, I was expected to be an adept user within a nanosecond. I didn't get a day to learn how to use the OS; I was supposed to use that day to work on the project.
Nope. They had better material to work with. It was also important that they be allowed to screw themselves, immediately with no fanfare and spectacularly. You only made the mistake once. It's rather like teaching a child not to touch a hot stove. If you coddle and yak nice error messages at it, he won't learn until he's allowed to touch the stove and discover for himself it's not a good idea.
Our style of training was to allow these hot stoves to happen before real work was buttigned to each person.
When you are doing the last edit before you ship the world, Murphy's Law guarantees that there will be an editing error. We had Murphy prevention techniques down to an art form.
CHARACTERS?
I can't tell you. I'd have to "see" the whole file. Diags were a real PITA to edit because each...
Advance the pointer to the first O; advance the pointer to the next O. That's what a line editor does.
BAH
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