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From: "peter a. cejchan" <cej@gli.cas.cz>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Re: \n\n\n to \n\n
Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2003 07:25:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000801c2e3a9$36cf2b00$2a8be793@gli.cas.cz> (raw)

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>> I just wonder why Edit is a built-in... I would prefer piping to (streamed) sam...
>> wouldn't that be a cleaner solution?

>  First, there isn't a streamed sam, and second, streaming only works
>  for one file.  Second, you *can* stream text through commands; I do it
>  all the time.  (|fmt, |sort, |tr A-Z a-z, etc.  etc.)

So do I. I was just curious why there is a built-in Edit instead of having "a better sed" ... I thought of Acme
as of an environment (say, glue), not a text teditor. Would love to have Plan 9 like a "LEGO" (TM), and more: single 
piece for every "task".... maybe stupid, but I would love sed with capabilities of Edit...

PS: I'm going to test the posted wrappers to Sam, and then, hopefully, forget of Edit, and |sed   ;-)
++pac

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             reply	other threads:[~2003-03-06  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-06  6:25 peter a. cejchan [this message]
2003-03-07 11:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-03-07 12:34   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
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2003-03-05 18:05 rog
2003-03-05 15:12 peter a. cejchan
2003-03-05 19:20 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-03-05  6:52 peter a. cejchan
2003-03-05 17:26 ` rob pike, esq.

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