15 Nov
2017
15 Nov
'17
5:13 p.m.
I still don't get what was so bad about TECO.
*20t$$
<20 lines of text>
*fs<text to search for>$<text to replace it with>$$
*0lt$$ ; type current line to review what you've changed.
Very simple.
*<fstextsearch$textreplace$>$$
replace all occurrences of textsearch.
Now, of course, searching for something like a regular expression was
much harder.
Q-registers, all sorts of cool stuff.
But then, maybe I'm talking about a later version of TECO than you all.
I think I was on version 22 on TOPS-10 6.03A
On 11/14/2017 10:07 PM, Will Senn wrote:
I wasn't going to say it earlier, but now that
you've said something
about it... I was thinking, thank god, ed isn't teco! :).
On 11/14/17 8:37 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
It took me a while to realize that ed(1) is what
TECO should have
been.... Too much TECO trauma scared me away for far too long.... But
maybe it was all the TECO macros I wrote to make the BH100 terminal
useful as an editor in full screen mode....
Warner
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com
<mailto:lm@mcvoy.com>> wrote:
+1. Anyone who gets this is someone I'd work with.
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:10:41PM -0600, Will Senn wrote:
After
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>On 31/10/2017, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org
<mailto:dave@horsfall.org>> wrote:
>>A previous boss insisted that all his
support staff learn ED,
because one
>>day it might be the only editor available
on a trashed box
(you can't
>>mount /usr etc).
>ed man; man ed
>
>https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
<https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html> (Sorry -- could not
resist)
N.
For all that it's the butt of jokes, ed is awesome. I didn't really
appreciate it until vi wasn't an easy goto option anymore (v6). reading Kernighan's tutorial, I kind of fell
in love with it.
g/re/p? Who'd
of thunk it? ed may not be 'visual',
but the entire document is
editable and
its support of regex and the global command are
incredibly
powerful.
Especially, for so incredibly tiny an editor.
Finally, ed is
the sibling of
sed and once I got the connection there, it
opened up a whole
new world of
editing awesomeness.
Will
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