15 May
2018
15 May
'18
4:17 p.m.
"Ron Natalie" <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
I never really learned VI. I can stumbled through it
in ex mode if I have
to. If there's no EMACS on the UNIX system I'm using, I use ed.
You get real good at regular expressions. Some of my employees were
pretty amazed at how fast I could make code changes with just ed.
I did learn vi, after having learned ed first. I drop down to the ex
command line for major regexp-based surgery too. I also get the amazement
from co-workers who watch me do stuff. :-) This is particularly true
of the, er, younger coworkers (kids today ... :-) who can't manage
outside an IDE.
Arnold