SOS /S-O-S/
n.,obs. An infamously losing text
editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for
the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a quick-and-dirty
`stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written.
Unfortunately, the old one was never really discarded when new ones
came along. SOS is a descendant (`Son of Stopgap') of that editor,
and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious pleasure of its
acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in style to SOS
have been written, notably the early font editor BILOS
/bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate
expansion `Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been proposed).
n.,obs. An infamously losing text
editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for
the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a quick-and-dirty
`stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written.
Unfortunately, the old one was never really discarded when new ones
came along. SOS is a descendant (`Son of Stopgap') of that editor,
and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious pleasure of its
acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in style to SOS
have been written, notably the early font editor BILOS
/bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate
expansion `Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been proposed).
Related:
- SOS: n.,obs. /S-O-S/ 1. An infamously {losing} text editor
Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed... - vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from
`Visual Interface'] n
A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for... - vi /V-I/, not /vi:/ and never /siks/ n.
[from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by
Bill Joy for an early BSD release
Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly... - EMACS /ee'maks/ n.
[from Editing MACroS] The ne plus
ultra of hacker editors
a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system... - TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs.
1. [originally an acronym for
`[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor... - Ed is the standard text
editor... - Emacs, n
A slow-moving parody of a text editor... - retrocomputing /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n.
Refers to
emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software
or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; esp... - miswart /mis-wort/ n.
[from wart by analogy with
misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a
wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing
For example, in some versions of the EMACS text...
