Am Samstag den, 27. April 2002, um 03:27, schrieb Thomas Mueller:

> from Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>:
>
>> and on 1200bps connection ed shows it's power.
>
> What do you mean by that?  ed is a text editor, not a communications 
> program.

John Clark <j1clark@ucsd.edu>:

> Ed does not use fancy screen controls, repainting the window required
> some large set of characters to be sent down the line, etc.
> If you wish to list out some lines you may do so, but it is not required
> to execute some ed commands...

> I've used ed on a 300 baud line, I think I would recommend
> 9600 as the minimum for vi...

Now I see, ed was used on a remote terminal to a computer, possibly a printing
terminal.  Serial port or modem speed would not be an issue when using ed on a
keyboard directly connected to a computer, as would usually be the case
nowadays.

Anybody know where I can find a copy of the Coherent manual so I can read that
chapter on ed?  When did Mark Williams Company go out of business?  1992? 1993?

I didn't know about Nano editor for Linux.  Slackware 8 uses elvis 2.1.4.  There
is also jed, joe, jove, and of course the full Emacs, and vim.