Knight wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Re: Re: Inactivity timeouts
By: Vk3jed to Poindexter Fortran on Thu Apr 14 2016 11:25 am

I'm a bit rusty on QEdit these days. Instead, I have 20+ years of pico/nano under Linux. :D

Ahh yeah, that's more like it. I've got 20+ years of vi/vim/pico/nano
too :)

I think I started using pico when I started using pine (and if I
remember correctly, they were both made by a university), which was
after I used elm, which was after mail/mailx.

Knight

Just hearing these names again are like gold.

I loved Q-Edit: was my favorite text editor for a long time.

PICO was another favorite: Just recently I joined the
DECUServe - eisner.decus.org - so I could get access to
a VAX/VMS (well, OpenVMS) shell again. Loved poking around
but to my disappointment, I had to use PICO within PINE only
to write a text file. [I REALLY didn't feel like relearning
EDIT/EDT again, although in the end I did a few minutes later]

I could launch into a discussion about the evils of UI changes
('cause that muscle memory just goes to waste whenever there's
something supposedly novel that comes along), but that's better
saved for another day.

-Kenneth Udut, Naples, FL
brain's online at http://icopiedyou.comm
(and on a gopher at Super Dimensional Fortress... :P )
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