9 Jan
2020
9 Jan
'20
4:01 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:50 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
I had a boss once who insisted that all his staff
learn "ed", because one
day it might be the only editor available; he was right...
I always suggest it. It means you can use sed and lot of other tools
pretty quick.
And if you know ed, you can use almost anything close to it. I hated
DOS's edlin but if I was stuck it was close enough.
Although the famous ? error from the original version was annoying.
Truly, I still suggest that any modern user, take Rob and Brian's book and
until you can do the exercises without think about it, you really are not
yet comfortable with UNIX. I even recommend at least read and looking at
the chapter on nroff.
Clem