12 Jan
2015
12 Jan
'15
8:52 p.m.
each program small and good at its one own thing.
I don't think it's sensible to apply this dictum to editors and viewers.
We don't, for example, have separate programs for inserting text, deleting
text, replacing text, scrolling a view up, scrolling a view down, and so
on. Less is really a sort of ed without the ability to modify its buffer.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Some people open all the Windows; wise wives welcome the spring by moving
the Unix. --Advertisement for Unix Book Units (U.K.)
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