15 Nov
2017
15 Nov
'17
3:37 a.m.
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> 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:
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). After
reading Kernighan's tutorial, I kind of fell in love with it. g/re/p?
Who'd
On 11/14/17 7:25 PM, Nemo wrote:
>On 31/10/2017, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)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 (Sorry -- could not resist)
N. 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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