6 Jul
2020
6 Jul
'20
1:11 p.m.
I actually like ed and sam. I find it "soothing" to be able to manipulate
text almost "programmatically"....
As an undergrad at USyd EE Dept, the VT100s in the computer lab were often
all taken, but there were a few LA30s still hooked up and no-one wanted to
use them. I learned how to optimally enter, compile and debug code through
a paper interface. It was VMS of course at EE, but when I started using
the Unix systems at CS a year later, the 11/750 was so heavily loaded that
"ed" was the best choice for getting assignments done quickly. Line
editors were also much more pleasant to use over slow modem connections. I
had a 28.8k modem but the dialup pool rarely got you a high speed
connection...
But back to the original topic... Has the MHSnet code made it into the
public domain?
Michael
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 11:52 PM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
If you know the ex subset of vi, you know most of what you need to
know to use ed ...
Arnold
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Michael Usher
Senior Wireless Network Engineer
University of California, Santa Cruz
musher(a)ucsc.edu 831-459-3697
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020, 10:14 PM Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jul 2020, Adam Thornton wrote:
>
> > Since I find ed thoroughly unpleasant to use, having a screen editor
was
> > a must for me to use v7 for any length
of time, and s fills that role
> > rather nicely.
>
> A boss of mine insisted that we all learned "ed", because one day it
might
be the
only editor available to you after a crash; he was right...
I should do that... So far I've managed to get by with sed :)
Warner
>