Reply to post: Re: Line editor without echo...

Customer: We fancy changing a 25-year-old installation. C'mon, it's just one extra valve... Only wafer thin...

defiler
Trollface

Re: Line editor without echo...

The thing only had a line editor that made MS-DOS edlin look like a state of the art WYSIWYG editor!

Okay, so it had Vi.

Want to delete the 25th charcter on the line? 24 x space, "d", Enter.

Insert something? Space out to where you want to insert, i, text, Enter.

Yeah, you said. It had Vi.

/me scuttles off to find a bunker...

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