7 Jul
2020
7 Jul
'20
12:51 a.m.
I fall back to ed or tr when I hit the bug in vim that prevents you from
inserting a newline with the s command (it inserts a NUL instead).
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:59 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
I always recommend doing the exercises in Rob and
Brian's UPE on ed
because then everything else makes sense, like sed or any other editor.
Plus you get the advantage you point out, and the reality is that so many
simpler editors (like edlin) have similar functionality, it means you can
get something done, just about anywhere.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:14 AM 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...
-- Dave