[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs,

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:12:51AM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> My tuppence worth:

> Consequently I found the best solution for me is to use my own editor, written
> in Cobol, which makes use of the Function Keys to invoke the various insert,
> replace, copy, paste, delete functions.
> 
> If I need to edit a file on a linux box its generally easier to whizz it over
> to the Unix box (with the cobol editor),  edit it there and whizz it back
> again.

If the editor is your own, you have the source ... why not port it to Linux ?
It can't be that hard ? I thought that free cobol compilers might be an issue
but there seem to be several listed below:

	http://www.freebyte.com/programming/cobol/

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