$ uptime
$ last|less
#sh #bash #csh #ksh #sh #fish #programming #OpenSource #technology #commandline #command #line #ed #edlin
$ uptime
$ last|less
#sh #bash #csh #ksh #sh #fish #programming #OpenSource #technology #commandline #command #line #ed #edlin
$ ls -lR ~
#sh #bash #csh #ksh #sh #fish #programming #OpenSource #technology #commandline #command #line #ed #edlin
OMG! Microsoft brought Edit back from the dead?
Open-sourced and Rust?!
And, in theory you can run it on mac and Linux?! At least they are bringing back edlin.
But, It's true. When I was looking for a small lightweight terminal editor in Windows, I either needed to take the Cygwin dependency for vim/gVim, or use Helix (which I had chosen so far).
#Edit #Edlin #vim #vi #gvim #TerminalEditor #ModelessEditor #Rust #OpenSource #Microsoft
Modern computers have tons of memory & disk. My desktop PC has 32GB memory and ¼TB NVME storage.
It's hard for some to imagine what programming was like when memory was counted in kilobytes and disks were single digit megabytes.
Here's a demonstration using #FreeDOS with 640kb memory and 5MB disk, using just #edlin and a C compiler to write programs. 🤓
➡️“Code like it’s the 1980s”
After a few weeks of procrastination, I finally took the time to read up on how to use EDLIN.COM. There's simply no way around it if you want to work with early versions of DOS from the 80s.
This here is me adding a few new lines to the AUTOEXEC.BAT of an IBM DOS 3.30. It ain't much, but it works! 😃
#Edlin in assembler is downright unreadable.
Make file has no unit tests... that would have to wait decade more.
Tutorial básico de EdLin