From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T16:35:25+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

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Michael W. Ryder wrote:
>> The first time I used them was in a mainframe editor that used a
>> superset of them.  You could go to the beginning of a file, skip 20
>> occurrences of a pattern, change the next 50 occurrences of a different
>> pattern, etc.  This was a major improvement when you had to edit a
>> 10,000 line file on a mechanical tty.  In today's multi-core, multi-GHz
>> personal computers something like this would not be too noticeable time
>> wise, but on a 60 cps tty the ability to do something like this was a
>> huge time saver.

I remember something like this in the text editors on Xerox CP-V and
earlier systems, but I don't think they pre-date Unix.
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