editors in rescue mode

[Derek Broughton]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:00 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
>> Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 17:26 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> >
>> >> Yes. I didn't try nano, didn't think of it.
>> >
>> > Or to avoid dependence on any terminal emulator use "ed". I used to
>> > have to do this on an old VAX-11-780 in single user mode where the
>> > console was literally a hardcopy teletype!
>> 
>> >From /usr/share/emacs/*/etc/JOKES:
> 
> LOL!  Thanks for that.
> 
> As an historical note, 

I hope you realize historical notes just ruin the humor :-)
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derek