[ale] Introduction and info about myself

[Beddingfield, Allen]

You might be surprised to hear that I'm under 40, not that much under
40..but under 40 nonetheless :)
To this day, I occasionally find myself hitting ctrl-y to try to remove a
whole line of text.  It was always convenient that Pegasus Mail's editor
honored some of those same shortcuts.
Allen B.
-- 
Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama




On 10/29/12 1:34 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>Wordstar.   Ahem... you're - uh - age is showing   :p
>
>My start in computers was working on a PC with DOS 2.0 with Lotus 123
>version 1A.   Back in those days even the format command assumed you
>meant "the current drive" so if you typed "format" rather than "format
>A:" after inserting a floppy it would happily overwrite the C: drive
>you'd started the format command from.  Back then we didn't even have
>"D'oh!" to express our feelings as it was pre-Simpsons.
>
>I remember when I first used Wordperfect on Novel version 2 and how its
>big selling point was that you could hide or display formatting codes at
>will so it was an improvement over Wordstar which until then had been the
>killer word processing app.
>
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>Beddingfield, Allen
>Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:20 PM
>To: simontek at gmail.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
>
>I suppose I fall into the vi category, since I have only used emacs
>onceŠwell, I opened it once, and then I spent all of the time it was open
>trying to figure out how to get out of it :D  Figuring out the pid at
>another terminal and killing it works nicely, BTW.
>As for nano/pico - my nickname for them is "The line-wrapping config file
>mangler!"  They work great a long as no one opens a complex config file
>with really long lines.  I'm also partial to joe, since I used to be a
>WordStar fanatic, and most of the key sequences match up - especially
>when you open it with "jstar"
>
>--
>Allen Beddingfield
>Systems Engineer
>The University of Alabama
>
>
>
>
>On 10/29/12 12:17 PM, "simontek at gmail.com" <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I use vi myself. A lot of people I know use nano, only 2 people I know
>>use emacs. I figure if I have to use a manual just to exit the program, I
>>don't need it.
>>Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at tux86.org>
>>Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org
>>Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:09:45
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