On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 11:13 PM Win Treese <treese@acm.org> wrote:

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> > On Jul 6, 2020, at 4:48 PM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
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> >> I never thought of that; I've always tried what works in ed, namely:
> >>
> >> s/foobar/foo\
> >> bar
> > need a closing / for ed, but ex/vi accepts the naked version.
>
> In the mid 1980s, when I was working at MIT’s Project Athena,
> one day Jerry Saltzer (MIT CS professor, known for work on CTSS
> and Multics, among other things, and Technical Director for Athena)
> called me into his office.
>
> He was trying to edit a file with ed on his IBM PC/RT workstation,
> which was running IBM’s variant of 4.2BSD on it, and he wanted
> to know why his search
>
>         /foo
>
> wasn’t working.
>
> I typed /foo/, and everything was fine.
>
> He looked at it and muttered, “Oh, you have to end it with a slash?
> When I wrote this for CTSS, you didn’t need to do that.”
>

Kids today.... get off my damn regex...  even turning couldn't complete
this lot. Bah

:)

Warner


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