The Editor
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I was hoping that this thread would be about Emacs vs vi.
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I needed years to learn that one can quit vi with Escape-q-!-Return. Before that, I could only get out of the editor by switching to a new terminal and killing the process.
I don't hate Emacs just as much, but I still hate it. It always gives me a million options and menu entries and only a tiny fraction of them are applicable in the particular situation.
These days, I use Atom. That's a pretty decent editor that satisfies most of my needs.
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Does anyone remember Edlin?
Old times that I don't miss at all. In hindsight, I don't understand the success of MS-DOS. Unix was so much better in every way, and there were several variants available that ran on X86 architectures in the early 1980s (including one by Microsoft - Xenix). Was it the resource usage that made the decisive difference? Pricing? Or "political" reasons?
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