29 Mar
2021
29 Mar
'21
9:09 p.m.
* Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> [2021-03-29 07:34:49 -0700]:
I had *.clients.your-server.de crawling mcvoy.com in
violation of my
robots.txt. For whatever reason, the tty settings (or something)
made vi not work, I dunno what the deal is, stty -tabs didn't help.
So I had to resort to ed to write and debug the little program below.
It was surprisingly pleasant, it's probably the first time I've used ed
for anything real in at least a decade. My fingers still know it.
+1 for ed. It's how many decades old and still useful?
I recently learned ed(1) for the first time (I have a unix beard, but it's
not grey yet). I found ed to be very efficient and useful for small fixes,
even on slow connections. This beginner's tutorial was very helpful
for me: gopher://katolaz.net/0/ed_tutorial.txt
(https mirror for non-gopher clients:
https://adamsgaard.dk/npub/ed_tutorial.txt )